Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect Turkish
This book offers a discursive analysis of the Turkish Foreign Policy on Humanitarian Interventions (HI) and the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Across the chapters the author addresses important questions, such as: what is the position of
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Birsen Erdogan
Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect Turkish Foreign Policy Discourse
Birsen Erdogan Maastricht University Maastricht, The Netherlands
ISBN 978-3-319-47682-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47683-4
ISBN 978-3-319-47683-4 (eBook)
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This book is dedicated to the brave and beautiful people of Syria and Libya.
PREFACE
I am writing the last parts of this book when I am in a small Turkish town by the Aegean. I see beautiful nature, on the one hand. Trees are full of fruits. Sea is crystal clear. Northern wind is bringing some coolness from the green mountains. Some Greek islands with little white houses, just a couple of miles away. But I can’t help thinking about the bad things happening in the world at that very moment: wars, killings, terror, poverty, hate speeches, increasing surveillance, securitisation, militarisation, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, hatred, genocides, growing animosity between societies, clashes within societies, lost individuals, lost children, lost nations and so on. At that very moment while I was writing Conclusion, a Syrian person was trying to escape from war, in a small plastic boat in the Aegean Sea. In spite of obstacles and hindrances on the way, she/he was going to run. Border officers were going to stop her/him. Rain was going to exhaust her/him. Fear was going to chase her/him. Some people were going to
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