Browsing by Author "Güvenç, Serhat"
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Changing Naval Balances In The Eastern Mediterranean: Implications For Turkey
This paper is aimed at providing an assesement of the growing Russian naval strength and assertiveness in the Eastern Mediterranean and its implications for Turkey's place in the regional naval power hierarchy after Moscow's direct involvement in the Syrian conflict in 2015. Although the main focus is on the Eastern Mediterranean the region obviously cannot be decoupled from the Black Sea and to some extent from the Aegean. Therefore this paper argues that the naval power hierarchy in these three ...
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NATO'nun Evrimi ve Türkiye'nin Transatlantik Güvenliğe Katkıları
Authors:Güvenç, Serhat
Publisher and Date:(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi, 2015)Türkiye NATO’ya 60 yıl aşkın bir süredir üyedir. Bu sürede güvenliğin hedefleri ve araçlarındaki değişime koşut olarak Türkiye’nin NATO’nun kolektif güvenlik sistemine katkısı da nitelik ve nicelik olarak değişim göstermiştir. Türkiye’nin katkıları bağlamında süreklilik gösteren iki unsur göze çarpmaktadır. Bunlardan birisi coğrafi konumudur. NATO’nun tehdit algılarının yoğunlaştığı bölgelere komşuluğu Türkiye ittifak açısından emlak değerini artırmaktadır. Bir diğer konu ise Türkiye’nin diğer ...
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NATO's Evolution and Turkey's Contribution to the Transatlantic Security
Turkey has been member of NATO for more than six decades. Turkey's contributions to NATO's collective defense have evolved in quantity and quality in step with changes in the ends and means of security. In terms of its contributions to the alliance, two elements of continued stand out. The first one is Turkey's location. Its proximity to zones of risks and threats in NATO's assessments has turned Turkey into an asset. The other element is Turkey's ability to raise and maintain a large army at a ...
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One Battle and Two Accounts: The Turkish Brigade at Kunu-ri in November 1950
The recent revival of academic and popular interest in the Korean War in Turkey has played an important role in instigating the production of new books and documentaries. In Turkish accounts the Battle of Kunu-ri (November 1950) figures more prominently than any other event during the entire conflict. However the Turkish Brigade's performance at this battle remains controversial. This paper assesses the impact of U.S. military assistance on Turkish military's transformation compares and contrasts ...
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Revisiting the Britain-US-Turkey triangle during the transition from Pax Britannica to Pax Americana (1947-1957)
Authors:Barlas, Dilek; Yılmaz, Şuhnaz; Güvenç, Serhat
Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francıs Ltd, 2020)This article analyses the triangular relations between Britain, the United States and Turkey in the volatile Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean region at the advent of the Cold War. It examines the political, economic and military strategies that enabled Turkey to adapt to the transitional period from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana (1947-1957) in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. By focusing on this turbulent decade extending from the Truman Doctrine (1947) to the Eisenhower ...