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Military and Geopolitical Mentality in Turkey Book Description: Writing the history of geopolitics in Turkey, and even tracing the geopolitical discourses that source and reproduce the formation of geopolitical culture in Turkey, requires not taking geographical definitions as given. Although it was first introduced into Turkish as a concept in the 1940s, geopolitics is not disconnected from the historical context in which it was discovered in Europe, its theoretical roots, and most importantly, the implicit link between geographical discourse and political power. Geopolitics has deeply penetrated into daily political culture as a "dominant language" that has gained authority in Turkey. This language has countless examples, different varieties and, above all, different "geopolitical imaginations" that vary according to different ideological positions. The book in your hands is exactly this situation. It has a content that tries to understand. By making use of the epistemological propositions, conceptual repertoire and methodological tools of critical geopolitics, it traces the dogmatic status of the "geography is inevitable principle" as knowledge, discourse and strategy by focusing on the geopolitical discourse of the Turkish Armed Forces. In other words, this book traces Turkey's It aims to unravel the "grammar" of the army's geopolitical discourse and Turkey's spatial representations by trying to determine the fictions, imaginations and visions regarding its international position with the help of critical geopolitics, and to provide an understanding of the geopolitical language dominant in politics. What and what is Turkey's "real role" and place in world politics? Instead of making a discussion about where it should be, it discusses how the discursive architecture that makes this role and place possible was formed. (From the Promotional Bulletin) Number of Pages: 364 Print Year: 2016 Language: Turkish Publishing House: Ancient"