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The Republic of Türkiye gave up the ideal of establishing a national defense industry, which it had set as a target since the War of Independence, due to the failure of the investments made since 1923 for different reasons and the military aid that came after 1947. The emergence of the USSR threat pushed Türkiye to become an ally with the USA after the war, and in 1952, Türkiye came under the protection umbrella of NATO. In this period, the conditional weapons aid from the US, in particular, caused Türkiye to experience an illusion of security. After the decision to intervene in Cyprus in 1964, with the letter sent by US President Johnson, Türkiye became aware of its illusory state. One of the reasons for delaying the Cyprus intervention for 10 years was the notification to Türkiye that the use of US-origin weapons would not be tolerated to intervene in Cyprus. Türkiye understood that it was impossible to rely on foreign weapons to realize national interests in this period, and the national defense industry, which has continued its development until today, re-adopted its founding goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Metamorphism is a motif that depends on transformations. One of the narrative genres in which this motif is seen is legends. In this study, metamorphism motif in the legends is discussed in the context of wars, is presented with the help of the sample texts selected from the Turkish legends of the Anatolian area. This study aims to reveal how the phenomenon of war, which determines the destiny of humanity contributes to the shaping of the metamorphism motif. The scope of this study was limited to the wars that took place in Anatolia (Turkish War of Independence etc.) during the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire before and after the First World War (Ottoman-Russian Wars, etc.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Turkish foreign policy toward the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) was construed as persistent Turkish endorsement of official French positions generating abiding resentment among the states of the Third World, especially Arab states, and understandably in Algeria, which was to elicit backlashes from the Third World states thereafter consequently causing substantial complications in Turkish foreign policy. Stressing the importance of incorporating nonmaterial and ideational factors in analyses of foreign policy, two arguments are put forward in this article for an accurate explanation of Turkish foreign policy toward Algerian War of Independence. First, it was the conception of the West, defined not only in strategic or military terms, but also in ideational and civilizational terms that induced Turkish policy-makers to adopt insular policies regarding Algeria. Second, a “temporal contextualization” of Turkish foreign policy during the Algerian War of Independence is required for a proper understanding of Turkish foreign policy toward the Algerian War of Independence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]