Projecting turkey’s power with the understanding of popular geopolitics

Dissertação de Mestrado em Estratégiaobjectivo desta tese é o de responder à seguinte questão: Como projecta a Turquia o seu poder através do conceito da “geopolitica popular”? Esta tese projecta esta questão nas ferramentas geopoliticas populares da Turquia. Examina até que ponto estas ferramentas são utilizadas para a prosperiadade deste país. Irei explorar esta fenómeno, através da analise de differentes fontes como: Canais de televisão turcos (TRT, Kanal D, Star TV and Fox TV), series de televisão turcos (Silver (Gumus), The Magnificent Century (Muhtesem Yuzyil), 1001 Nights (Binbir Gece) and Resurrection of Ertugrul (Dirilis Ertugrul), filmes turcos ((The Valley of the Wolfs – Iraq and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s films) e cultura popular turca (musica e desporto). Serão analizados os seus efeitos e a maneira como contribuem para a geopolitica popular da Turquia.This thesis aims to answer the following question: How does Turkey project its power through the concept of "popular geopolitics"? I project this question onto the tools of Turkey’s popular geopolitics. The thesis examines to which extent these tools are used for the prosperity of this country. Such is explored through an examination of different sources such as Turkish TV Channels (TRT, Kanal D, Star TV and Fox TV), Turkish TV series (Silver (Gumus), The Magnificent Century (Muhtesem Yuzyil), 1001 Nights (Binbir Gece) and Resurrection of Ertugrul (Dirilis Ertugrul), Turkish films (The Valley of the Wolfs – Iraq and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s films) and popular culture elements (music & sports) of Turkey. Their effects and the ways in which they contribute to popular geopolitics of Turkey will be analyzed.N/