Adısönmez, Umut Can
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Article Citation - Scopus: 9Sovereignty, Power, and Authority: Understanding the Conversion of Hagia Sophia From a Performative Perspective(Routledge, 2024) Oztig, L.I.; Adısönmez, Umut CanThroughout its history, Hagia Sophia has been used as an Orthodox church, a Roman Catholic church, a mosque, and a museum. After a controversial decision in 2020, Hagia Sophia was converted back into a mosque. This article shows that Hagia Sophia’s conversion into a mosque is more than a juridical action. By adopting a performative approach, it is argued that, through the conversion, the ruling Justice and Development Party seeks to achieve its two-fold agenda. Firstly, while reflecting the party’s Islamic political vision that situates religion as an integral part of everyday life, this move reaffirms the JDP’s position as the ultimate political authority that shapes Turkey’s sovereign space. Secondly, the conversion fits into and perpetuates the JDP’s instrumentalization of religion as a political tool to increase its power in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in line with its neo-Ottomanist agenda. © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.Article Citation - Scopus: 3From Beka to Ghaza? New Ontological Security Regime and Turkey’s Neo-Imperial Bid in World Politics(SAGE Publications Inc., 2024) Adısönmez, Umut Can; Al, S.Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy agendas have long been dominated by the state survival politics (‘Beka Meselesi’ in Turkish). This survival logic is so powerful as it gravitates around collective anxieties and their re-production since the beginning of the early Republican period, the separation of Turkey along ethnic lines being the most distressing. Building on this, this article makes two claims. Firstly, it argues that alternative interpretations have emerged regarding Turkey’s self-image under the Justice and Development Party’s (JDP) rule. Specifically, the JDP elites re-imagined the country’s standing in world politics by drawing on the nostalgia for Ottoman grandeur. With this new self-image in mind, the JDP elites have critically engaged with the survival codes and priorities of the ‘Old’ Turkey by taking these notions as negative reference points in shaping the ‘New’ Turkey’s foreign policy direction. With this revised worldview and self-image, Turkey would finally reclaim its agenda-setter role in International Relations based on the historical, political, and sociocultural links with its imperial geography and beyond. Secondly, we argue that this shift from a more defensive survival-based approach towards a more offensive-interventionist imperial stance has two-fold dynamics. On the one hand, it has emerged in parallel to the changing nature of international order, that is, multipolarity and the rise of illiberalism. On the other hand, it has gained further momentum by the rising Turkish military-industrial complex that is closely linked with Turkey’s post-2016 realities. The article unpacks Turkey’s bid for neo-imperial standing in an evolving international order by drawing on the self-interrogative reflexivity approach in ontological security theory. © The Author(s) 2024.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 9Quest for Regional Hegemony: the Politics of Ontological Insecurity in the Saudi-Iran Rivalry(Sage Publications Inc, 2022) Adisonmez, Umut Can; Onursal, Recep; Oztig, Lacin IdilThe rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has been unfolding over a long period, influencing the politics and conflicts in the Middle East. The dynamics, content, and form of the rivalry have changed dramatically following the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Sectarianism is frequently seen as the constitutive element of the conflict between the two countries. This paper brings a new light into the literature on the nature of the evolving Saudi-Iran rivalry. Specifically, it explains Saudi Arabia's ideational balancing and threat perception against Iran by highlighting the ontological security narratives under which the Saudi-Iran rivalry evolves. In doing so, it draws on the fatwas (i.e., religious opinions), issued by Saudi scholars, as an empirical object of investigation, and explores how they constitute and reconstitute Saudi Arabia's ontological security narratives. In this way, this work critically explains the ontological security regime in Saudi Arabia and the nature of the political struggle and antagonism between the two countries.Article Citation - WoS: 8Citation - Scopus: 9A Psychoanalytic Approach To Turkish Foreign Policy: Crisis, Disorder, and Disorientation(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024) Adısönmez, Umut Can; Öztığ, Laçin İdilWhat explains Turkey's current foreign policy disorientation, causing the country to swing from one position to another in a relatively short period of time? We argue that rational arguments do not provide comprehensive explanations of the fluctuations in Turkish foreign policy. By utilising a psychoanalytic approach, this study argues that the relentless radical developments that unfolded at home and abroad in the past decade paralysed the Turkish leadership, disrupting their sense of order in international politics while detaching them from important geopolitical realities. Under this neurotic condition, Turkey's leadership has engaged in a constant seek for recognition as a key regional player irrespective of how controversial these efforts may be. In making sense of this case, this study builds on the ontological security literature in International Relations and contributes to the existing debates on foreign policy crises by integrating a Lacanian notion of jouissance to the ontological security framework. It shows that the jouissance approach offers a productive lens which captures how an ontologically insecure state like Turkey follows disorderly conducts in international politics and gains satisfaction from it as a way to reassure its ruptured sense of actorness at times of multiple crises.Article Citation - WoS: 15Citation - Scopus: 18Strong, but Anxious State: the Fantasmatic Narratives on Ontological Insecurity and Anxiety in Turkey(Uluslararasi Iliskiler Konseyi Dernegi, 2022) Adisonmez, Umut Can; Onursal, RecepThe political discourse on the problem of state survival in Turkey is hegemonic. What is central to this discourse is Sevresphobia: the idea that Turkey is surrounded by internal and external enemies who are ready to destroy it. This article aims to explain why the political discourse on the problem of state survival in Turkey sustains itself over time and how it captures the collective mode of being. The article argues that fantasmatic narratives play an important role in maintaining the hegemonic discourse and governing collective anxiety. First, fantasmatic narratives simplify the socio-political space by offering a comforting explanation for the ongoing insecurities and making anxiety tolerable. Second, they act as an ideological force by keeping the political dimension of the discourse on ontological security at bay. Drawing on the Post-foundational Theory of Discourse (PTD) and Ontological Security Theory (OST), the article problematizes and analyzes the political discourse on the problem of state survival in Turkey.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Old Wine in a New Bottle: Navigating Religion and Politics in Turkiye(MDPI, 2024) Öztığ, Laçin İdil; Adisonmez, Umut CanWhile there is a large body of literature on different models of secularism and religion and politics, relatively scarce attention has been devoted to the experimentation of the moderate secularism model in authoritarian and Muslim-majority countries. This article brings a novel insight into the literature by unpacking the complex relationship between secularism, politics, and religion in Turkiye. The Turkish Republic was founded on the norm of authoritarian secularism that promulgates the exclusion of religion both from the political and public spheres. After the Justice and Development Party (JDP) came to power, Turkiye appeared to be moving toward moderate secularism through policies, such as the liberalization of the headscarf and the expansion of non-Muslim rights. By examining the transformed role of the Diyanet (the Presidency of Religious Affairs), Imam Hatip schools, and the conversion of church-turned-museums into mosques, this article illustrates that rather than moving in the direction of moderate secularism, the JDP has rather instrumentalized it and has eventually worked toward infusing Islamic norms into the Turkish state through bureaucratic and political initiatives. By examining and contextualizing the trajectory of secularism in Turkiye, this study contributes to the literature on religion, authoritarianism, and secularism in general, and ongoing debates on Turkish politics in particular.Article Between Crises and Fragile Stability: Turkiye-Israel Affairs(Turkish Policy Quarterly, 2022) Adisonmez, Umut Can; Oztig, Lacin IdilSince the establishment of Israel, the Turkish-Israeli relations have been marked by continuous periods of swings - from crises to cooperation and back. This article aims to shed light on the turbulent bilateral ties by focusing on the role of the current Justice and Development Party (JDP) rule in Turkiye. In doing so, it firstly provides a background on the two countries' relations, covering the period between their foundational years and 2002. Secondly, it explores a series of significant crises against which the Turkish-Israeli relations reached an all-time low starting with the Operation Cast Lead in 2008. Given the recent developments unfolding in Turkiye's domestic sphere and its close geography, this work lastly assesses the impact of the Abraham Accords in 2020 on bilateral relations and speculates about the future trajectories.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 3From Beka To Ghaza? New Ontological Security Regime and Turkey's Neo-Imperial Bid in World Politics(Sage Publications inc, 2024) Adisonmez, Umut Can; Al, SerhunTurkey's domestic and foreign policy agendas have long been dominated by the state survival politics ('Beka Meselesi' in Turkish). This survival logic is so powerful as it gravitates around collective anxieties and their re-production since the beginning of the early Republican period, the separation of Turkey along ethnic lines being the most distressing. Building on this, this article makes two claims. Firstly, it argues that alternative interpretations have emerged regarding Turkey's self-image under the Justice and Development Party's (JDP) rule. Specifically, the JDP elites re-imagined the country's standing in world politics by drawing on the nostalgia for Ottoman grandeur. With this new self-image in mind, the JDP elites have critically engaged with the survival codes and priorities of the 'Old' Turkey by taking these notions as negative reference points in shaping the 'New' Turkey's foreign policy direction. With this revised worldview and self-image, Turkey would finally reclaim its agenda-setter role in International Relations based on the historical, political, and sociocultural links with its imperial geography and beyond. Secondly, we argue that this shift from a more defensive survival-based approach towards a more offensive-interventionist imperial stance has two-fold dynamics. On the one hand, it has emerged in parallel to the changing nature of international order, that is, multipolarity and the rise of illiberalism. On the other hand, it has gained further momentum by the rising Turkish military-industrial complex that is closely linked with Turkey's post-2016 realities. The article unpacks Turkey's bid for neo-imperial standing in an evolving international order by drawing on the self-interrogative reflexivity approach in ontological security theory.Master Thesis Neo-Ottomanism and Nation (re)branding in Turkey: the Case of Media(İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi, 2024) Uluer, Mustafa Murat; Adisönmez, Umut CanBu tez, ontolojik güvenlik, yeni Osmanlıcılık ve ulus markalaşması arasındaki karmaşık ilişkiye odaklanmaktadır. Bunu yapmak için, tarih temalı pembe diziler aracılığıyla son yirmi yılda yaşanan dönüşümü araştırmakta ve Türkiye'nin Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi iktidarı altındaki değişimine yön veren motivasyonlara ışık tutmayı amaçlamaktadır. AKP hükümetinin temel hedeflerinden biri, yeni Osmanlı ideolojisinin vizyonlarına ulaşmak için Türkiye'yi (yeniden) markalaştırmaktır. Yeni Osmanlıcı politikaların sürdürülebilmesi için AKP iktidarının şekillendirdiği 'yeni' Türkiye kimliğinin eski Osmanlı topraklarında tanınması gerekmektedir, bu ihtiyaç Türk medya ürünlerinin özellikle Balkanlar ve Orta Doğu'ya ihraç edilmesiyle giderilmektedir. Bu nedenle bu tez, Türkiye'nin değişen kimliğine ve hükümet anlatılarına ışık tutmak amacıyla ilki 2002-2014 ve ikincisi 2014-2023 olmak üzere iki farklı dönemdeki güncel televizyon dizilerini analiz etmektedir. Bu süreçte Türkiye, yeni ontolojik güvenlik kodları geliştirmek için emperyal geçmişiyle barışmayı amaçlamaktadır ve kasıtlı olarak Kemalist anlatılardan uzaklaşmaktadır. Çalışma, bu anlatı boşluklarını kapatmak için kullanılan araçları inceleyerek, AKP hükümeti ve onun seçkinleri tarafından yaratılan söylemlerin TV dizileri aracılığıyla yeniden üretildiğine dikkat çekmektedir. Son olarak, medya ile ulus markalama, ontolojik güvenlik ve iddialı bir yeni Osmanlı kimliği arayışı arasındaki simbiyotik ilişkiyi ortaya koyan tez, ulusal kimliğin belirli bir versiyonunu şekillendirme ve güçlendirmede, ontolojik güvenlik hissini beslemede ve iddialı bir yeni Osmanlı kimliğinin benimsenmesini teşvik etmede medya anlatılarının önemini vurgulamaktadır.Master Thesis Understanding Responses To the Syrian Refugee Influx in the European Union: Shifting From Normativity?(İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi, 2023) Çakar, Özgür; Adısönmez, Umut CanBu araştırma, Suriyeli mülteci akını ışığında Avrupa Birliği (AB) ve üye devletlerinin değişen dinamiklerini normatif güç kimliği açısından anlamayı amaçlamaktadır. Ian Manners'ın AB'nin normatif gücü kavramını temel alan bu çalışma, AB'nin ve üye ülkelerin hem politikalarını hem de söylemlerini eleştirel bir biçimde incelemektedir. Bu inceleme, AB'nin normatif kimliği ile mülteci akınının yarattığı zorluklara yanıt olarak benimsenen pragmatik stratejiler arasındaki ikilemin altını çiziyor. Söylem analizinden yararlanan araştırma, AB'nin yaklaşımını karakterize eden ve 'Avrupa Kalesi' kavramsallaştırmasına yol açan güvenlikleştirme ve dışsallaştırma süreçlerini ortaya koyuyor. Aşırı sağ ideolojilerin yükselişi ve bunların bu dönüşüm üzerindeki etkisi de araştırılıyor ve siyasi söylem ile politika eylemi arasındaki karmaşık etkileşim aydınlatılıyor. Kapsamlı bir analiz yoluyla bu tez, AB'nin normatif bir aktör olarak ve güncel göç baskılarına yanıt veren üye devletlerin kolektif bir siyasi varlığı olarak rolünün doğasında olan karmaşıklıkları ve çelişkileri ortaya koymaktadır. Ayrıca bu çalışma, normatif bir güç olarak AB'nin teorik çerçevesi ile göç alanındaki pratik faaliyetleri arasındaki boşluğu doldurarak literatüre önemli bir katkı sunmaktadır. Bulgular, AB'nin duruşundaki bir değişimin altını çiziyor; normatif kimliğinden 'Avrupa Kalesi'ni anımsatan daha korumacı ve dışlayıcı bir yaklaşıma doğru bir sapmayı ortaya koyuyor.
