Lerna Koharik Yanık

Koharik Yanık, Lerna

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Prof. Dr.

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lerna.yanik@khas.edu.tr

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0000-0002-5234-2067

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Turkey and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: an Interplay of Bloc (de)formation, Recognition and Asymmetric Interdependencies?
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023) Yanik, Lerna K.; Koharik Yanık, Lerna
This piece answers some of the issues (such as the potential emergence of new blocs, the role of interdependencies, and Western recognition) raised in Debating the War in Ukraine by examining Turkey's role in the war in Ukraine. It argues that Turkey's somewhat balanced policy in the war, trying to please both Ukraine and Russia, stems from three main considerations. First, Turkey's economic and strategic asymmetric interdependency (in Syria) on Russia prevents Turkey from taking actions that might run against Russian interests in the war in Ukraine. Second, Turkey's balanced attitude legitimizes Turkey's position to undertake mediation efforts to end the war, fulfill the global leadership role envisioned by the JDP-led Turkey, and also has the potential to garner Turkey some Western recognition, which might not be domestically translated. Finally, the balanced attitude is also a well-poised strategy for Turkey to garner a stake in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.
Turkey Facing East: Islam Modernity and Foreign Policy
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2015) Koharik Yanık, Lerna
[Abstract Not Available]
Türk Savaş Filmlerinin Analizi (2009-2019): Popüler Jeopolitik Bir Yaklaşım
(2024) Kılıç, Elif Esin; Koharik Yanık, Lerna; Yanık, Lerna Koharik
Coğrafya ve siyasetin uzun ve samimi ilişkisi jeopolitiğin uluslararası ilişkilerle en sıkı bağlara sahip disiplinlerden birisi olmasına neden olmuştur demek mümkündür. Klasik jeopolitik olarak adlandırılan jeopolitik kuramlar uluslararası ilişkilerdeki realist paradigmanın etkisiyle mekânı devlet merkezli güç politikalarını esas alarak incelemiştir. 1990'lardan sonra dünyada gelişen eleştirel jeopolitik bakış açısı birçok uluslararası eylemin görünen amaçlarından ziyade dile getirilmeyen amaçlara hizmet ettiğini ileri sürmüştür. Eleştirel jeopolitiğe göre devletlerin kültürel ve ideolojik sınırlarını belirleyen güçleri vardır ve bu güçleri coğrafi sınırlarının oldukça ötesindedir. Eleştirel jeopolitiğin alt dalı olan popüler jeopolitik ise jeopolitik bilginin nerede üretildiğine dair geniş kapsamlı bir kavramdır ve popüler medya, romanlar, dergiler ve çizgi filmler gibi çeşitli kültürel formlarda bulunan jeopolitik temsillere atıfta bulunur. Bu bağlamda bu tez de popüler jeopolitiğin araçlarından biri olan sinema hakkındadır. Bu tez 2000 yılından sonra Türkiye'de çekilen asker ve savaş konulu filmlerin mekân üzerinden ortaya çıkan güç dinamiklerine odaklanarak Türkiye'nin neresi ve Türkiye'nin kim olduğunu anlamaya çalışacaktır. Bu tezin temel sorusu ise, 2000 sonrası asker savaş konulu filmlerde kullanılan söylem ve temalar üzerinde Türklük algısını ve Türkiye'nin konumsal mekânı üzerinden kurulan güç dinamiklerinin neler olduğudur. Bu bağlamda bu tezin konusu ise 2009 ile 2019 Türkiye'de sonrası Türkiye'de çekilen asker ve savaş temalı filmler olan Anadolu Kartalları, Dağ 1, Dağ 2, Can Feda, Nefes, Börü, Bölük ve Meteler filmlerinin temsillerinin mekân üzerinden kurduğu kimlik ve güç ilişkilerinin analizini yapmaktır.
Turkey's Soft Power A Conceptual Overreach and a Conversation in Multiple Concepts
(Columbia Univ Press, 2021) Koharik Yanık, Lerna; Yanik, Lerna K.
[Abstract Not Available]
Constructions of European Identity: Debates and Discourses on Turkey and the EU
(Uluslararasi Iliskiler Konseyi dernegi, 2013) Koharik Yanık, Lerna
[No Abstract Available]
The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire's Religiously Inspired Status Symbols
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2024) Hisarlioglu, Fulya; Hisarlıoğlu, Fatma Fulya; Yanik, Lerna K.; Koharik Yanık, Lerna
How do status symbols rise and fall? Or better said, how does a status symbol become a status symbol and then cease to be one? We examine the rise and the fall of the Ottoman Empire's two socialization practices with the international society as status symbols: sending and receiving envoys/establishing permanent representation abroad and granting capitulations/extraterritoriality-economic and legal privileges to primarily European countries. We argue and illustrate that status symbols are products of hegemons of the time that dictate the status symbols of the international order at that particular point in time, with little or no recognition. These symbols emanating from the position that the states occupy in the hierarchy can be status-enhancing rather than status-achieving if these states perceive and locate themselves in the higher echelons of the hierarchy in the international order. We contribute to status-seeking literature by examining the rise and fall of status symbols in a non-Western setting and merging ideational and material factors in status-seeking literature.
Cultural Heritage as Status Seeking: the International Politics of Turkey's Restoration Wave
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2020) Yanık, Lerna K.; Koharik Yanık, Lerna; Subotic, Jelena
This article explores the relationship between cultural heritage politics and international status-seeking. We advance a two-fold typology of status-seeking that explains why states engage in cultural heritage restoration practices at home and abroad. First, cultural heritage restoration can be an easy way to signal state respect of its multicultural past while providing cover for continuing anti-multicultural policies of the present. States with uncertain, challenged, or liminal international status use cultural heritage projects as a 'standard of civilization' of democracy, displaying themselves on the international stage as worthy of status and respect. Cultural heritage here is used as a strategy for international status affirmation. Second, states may engage in cultural heritage restoration beyond their borders, supporting or directly managing renovation of these sites in order to expand their imagined national cultural, political, and economic domain. Cultural heritage restoration projects here serve as a backdrop for powerful international economic alliances that can be used for status substitution-replacing one status-generating benchmark of 'standard of civilization' with another-economic prosperity. We illustrate these arguments with two recent cases of cultural heritage restoration that involve Turkey: the 'Akdamar' Church in Van, Turkey and the Tomb of Gul Baba in Budapest, Hungary.
Turkish Foreign Policy: Islam Nationalism and Globalization
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2013) Yanık, Lerna K.; Koharik Yanık, Lerna
[Abstract Not Available]
From the Atlantic Pact To Nato: Debating Turkey's Location and Function in the Turkish Grand National Assembly
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2012) Yanık, Lerna K.; Koharik Yanık, Lerna
This article using critical geopolitics as a framework analyzes identity formation in Turkey during Turkey's NATO accession. The main thesis of this article is that identity that is made through foreign policy discourse should not only be confined to debates about location culture and values but should also include a country's own perceptions about its international function. This article analyzes debates in the Turkish Grand National Assembly just before and after Turkey's NATO accession and it argues that though Turkish elites perceived itself as part of the West in terms of location culture and values this was not the case in terms of international function. By becoming the disseminator of the Western security understanding to the Middle East as part of the West Turkey during these years has started to carve itself a liminal identity. This limnality however was a covert one because Turkey perceived itself as part of the West in terms of location culture and values but assumed an in-between role in terms of function in the international system.
Contesting the Corrupt Elites, Creating the Pure People, and Renegotiating the Hierarchies of the International Order? Populism and Foreign Policy-Making in Turkey and Hungary
(Oxford Univ Press, 2022) Hisarlıoğlu, Fatma Fulya; Koharik Yanık, Lerna; Korkut, Umut; Civelekoglu, Ilke
This article explores the link between populism and hierarchies in international relations by examining the recent foreign policy-making in Turkey and Hungary-two countries run by populist leaders. We argue that when populists bring populism into foreign policy, they do so by contesting the corrupt elites of the international order and, simultaneously, attempt to create the pure people transnationally. The populists contest the eliteness and leadership status of these elites and the international order and its institutions, that is, the establishment, that these elites have come to represent by challenging them both in discourse and in action. The creation of the pure people happens by discursively demarcating the underprivileged of the international order as a subcategory based on religion and supplementing them with aid, thus mimicking the distributive strategies of populism, this time at the international level. We illustrate that when populist leaders, insert populism into foreign policies of their respective states, through contesting the corrupt elites and creating the pure people, the built-in vertical stratification mechanisms of populism that stems from the antagonistic binaries inherent to populism provide them with the necessary superiority and inferiority labels allowing them to renegotiate hierarchies in the international system in an attempt to modify the existing ones or to create new ones.