1st Edition

Turkey in Africa A New Emerging Power?

292 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary analysis of Turkey-Africa relations. Bringing together renowned authors to discuss various dimensions of Turkey’s African engagement while casting a critical analysis on the sustainability of Turkey-Africa relations, this book draws upon the rising power literature to examine how Turkish foreign policy has been conceptualized and situated... Read more

Introduction: Contextualizing Turkey’s Africa Policy

Elem Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu and Ali Onur Tepeciklioğlu

Part 1: Historical, Theoretical and Political Foundations of Turkey-Africa Relations

1. Theorizing Turkey’s Africa Policy: Turkey as a Rising Power

Ali Onur Tepeciklioğlu

2. Ottoman Empire and Africa at the Age of Colonial Expansion: Appreciating the Loyalty of African Muslims, Debating the Colonial Rupture

Mustafa Serdar Palabıyık

3. Turkey-Africa Relations: A Retrospective Analysis

Numan Hazar and Elem Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu

4. Being "Southern" without Being of the Global South: The Strange Case of Turkey South-South Cooperation in Africa

Federico Donelli

Part 2: Economic Relations and Military Strategies

5. The Political Economy of Turkey Africa Relations

Hüseyin Emrah Karaoğuz and Selman Emre Gürbüz

6. Interplay between Identity and Trade in Turkey-Africa Relations

Samiratou Dipama and Emel Parlar Dal

7. Turkey’s Military Strategy in Africa

Brendon J. Cannon

8. Turkey and UNPKO in Africa: Reluctant Multilateralism

Birsen Erdoğan

Part 3: Turkey’s Soft Power

9. "The Voice of The Voiceless": Turkey’s Public Diplomacy in Africa

Senem Çevik

10. Turkey's Development Assistance in Africa in the 2000s: Hybrid Humanitarianism in the Post-Liberal Era

Gonca Oğuz Gök

11. Turkey’s Religious Diplomacy in Africa

Elem Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu

12. Turkish Airlines as a Source of Turkey’s Soft Power in Africa

Orçun Selçuk

13. Turkey’s Diplomatic Charm Offensive in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is Ankara Winning the Hearts and Minds of Africans?

Alexis Habiyaremye

Conclusion: Turkey, Just another Emerging Power in Africa?

Elem Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu and Ali Onur Tepeciklioğlu

Biography

Elem Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu is a faculty member at Yasar University, International Law Implementation and Research Center, Turkey.

Ali Onur Tepeciklioğlu is a faculty member at Ege University, Department of International Relations, Turkey.