| ID | 190815 |
| Title Proper | Making of Turkish exceptionalism |
| Other Title Information | the west, the rest and unreconciled issues from the past |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Yanik, Lerna K |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article has two main goals. The first is to examine the role of politics of space and time in making Turkey’s international relations. The second is to answer a more general question: what happens to a non-Western state like Turkey that cannot eliminate ‘differences’ that mark that state as non-Western? My answer is that these states handle these ‘differences’ that do not entirely disappear by creating exceptionalism. Exceptionalism rebrands ‘difference’ as ‘distinctiveness’ that can only be possessed by a specific country or nation. The article identifies two main pathways to the creation of Turkish exceptionalism, space and time, and explores the brief history of these spatio-temporal imaginations leading to the making of the exceptionalist narrative and their implications for Turkey’s foreign relations and identity. |
| `In' analytical Note | Turkish Studies Vol. 24, No.3-4; Jun-Sep 2023: p.640-657 |
| Journal Source | Turkish Studies 2023-07 24, 3-4 |
| Key Words | Turkish Foreign Policy ; Critical Geopolitics ; Exceptionalism ; Politics of Space and Time ; Non - Western International Relations |