Two Paradigms of the Modern Turkish PoliticalSecurity Discourse – the Sèvres Syndrome and the National Oath: from Discourse to Policy

Authors

  • Levon Hovsepyan Yerevan State University

Keywords:

Turkey, Sèvres syndrome, “National Oath”, “Justice and Development” Party, Security, Discourse

Abstract

The Sèvres syndrome, the fear of territorial loss being imposed on Turkey by foreign powers, again gains its active manifestation in modern Turkish official and political discourse. In parallel, Turkish authorities have taken aggressive and revisionist policy course in the neighbouring regions, based on the use of military force and continuous threat of it, bringing into agenda the territorial vision of the National oath. In the rhetorics of the authorities are combined the fear of territorial loss, the syndrome, on the other side as the countermeasure to it, aggressive and interventionist policy in neighboring regions, which is obviously not only in discoursive dimension but also in real military-political actions. So we can say that the current aggressive regional policy
of Turkey is determined by the fear of territorial dismemberment of Turkey. The Sèvres syndrome, as in the past, today also influences Turkish politics and the understanding of politics and world affairs.

Author Biography

Levon Hovsepyan, Yerevan State University

PhD, YSU Academic Secretary, Associate Professor of the Chair of Political Institutions and Processes of YSU. Address: 0025, Yerevan, 1 Alex Manoogian, Email: levonhovsepyan@ysu.am

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Published

2020-12-18

How to Cite

Hovsepyan, Levon. 2020. “Two Paradigms of the Modern Turkish PoliticalSecurity Discourse – the Sèvres Syndrome and the National Oath: From Discourse to Policy”. Bulletin of Yerevan University D: International Relations and Political Sciences 11 (3 (33):17-29. https://journals.ysu.am/index.php/bulletin-ysu-int-rel-pol/article/view/Vol.33_No.3_2020_pp.17-29.

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International Relations