The Shape and Sustainability of Turkey’s Booming Humanitarian Assistance

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ID23213422
AuthorsAndrea Binder (0000-0002-1710-0687, Global Public Policy Institute, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume5.2
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational development policy/Revue internationale de politique de développement (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1663-9375 • E-ISSN: 1663-9383
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/poldev.1741
OpenAlexW2142599209
LanguageEN
Citations received5

With several rising powers emerging as new actors on the humanitarian scene, viewing all ‘emerging donors’ as a homogenous group inevitably undermines efforts to constructively engage with them. With Turkey’s widely recognized engagement in Somalia and Syria, the country merits a nuanced analysis. How does it conceptualize humanitarian assistance? What norms and interests shape its humanitarian engagement? How is such an engagement financed and organized? Thoroughly evaluating how foreign and domestic agendas shape Turkey’s humanitarian engagement, the paper details how Ankara designs and implements its humanitarian assistance. The collaborative relationship between the government, faith-based businesses, and the religious segment of a generally deeply divided civil society emerges as a unique feature of Turkey’s humanitarian assistance. This set-up calls for an informed approach towards working with specific Turkish actors. It also questions the sustainability and scalability of current aid levels.

Civil society · Government (linguistics) · Humanitarian aid · Humanitarian crisis · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Sustainability · Turkish · International Development and Aid · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development

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