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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Международные отношения</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-0660</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-0679</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы» (РУДН)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">27443</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-0660-2021-21-3-459-471</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THEMATIC DOSSIER</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ТЕМАТИЧЕСКОЕ ДОСЬЕ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">“Blue Homeland” and Cyprus: The “Survival of the State” Coalition and Turkey’s Changing Geopolitical Doctrine in the Eastern Mediterranean</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>«Голубая родина» и Кипр: коалиция «выживания государства» и меняющаяся геополитическая доктрина Турции в Восточном Средиземноморье</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-5234</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Moudouros</surname><given-names>Nikos</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Мудурос</surname><given-names>Никос</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in Turkish Studies, Lecturer, Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор наук (турецкие исследования), преподаватель департамента турецких и ближневосточных исследований</p></bio><email>moudouros.nikos@ucy.ac.cy</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Cyprus</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Кипрский университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-09-20" publication-format="electronic"><day>20</day><month>09</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>21</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Mediterranean Sea Basin – New Regional Security Complex?</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Бассейн Средиземного моря – новый региональный комплекс безопасности?</issue-title><fpage>459</fpage><lpage>471</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-09-20"><day>20</day><month>09</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Moudouros N.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Мудурос Н.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Moudouros N.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Мудурос Н.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/27443">https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/27443</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The importance of the Eastern Mediterranean for the Turkish state is diachronic. In recent years, however, a renewed interest of Ankara is being recorded as a result of the developments in the energy sphere. This is expressed through various forms of interventionist policy of Turkey in the area. This article examines the reshaping of Turkey’s geopolitical dogma and its connection with Turkish perception of the Eastern Mediterranean. It examines the impact of the failed coup attempt in 2016 on the ruling power bloc and its reflections in the Turkish geopolitical doctrine. In this framework the article explores the reinstatement of the need for “survival of the state” ( devletin bekası ) as a result of the reshaping of the ruling coalition and the legitimisation of the attempt to strengthen the authority of the state. At the same time, the ideological construction of the Eastern Mediterranean is important, as it can reveal the process of construction of security issues or the instrumentalisation of real threats through which geopolitical orientation is reshaped and specific policies are implemented. This study consequently reviews the identification of the Eastern Mediterranean with a wider “hostile region” and analyses the functioning of the “blue homeland” concept as a legitimising axis of Turkish politics. The concept of “blue homeland” is examined in conjunction with internal developments in Turkey and especially the change of balance in the power bloc. Finally, the last part of the article analyses the ideological legitimisation of the “blue homeland” concept in Turkey’s strategy for the Eastern Mediterranean. Through these dynamics, the change in Ankara’s perception of the Turkish Cypriot community and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is also identified.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Восточное Средиземноморье является традиционным с точки зрения внешнеполитических интересов регионом для Турецкой Республики. Однако в последние годы после открытия здесь больших месторождений газа и нефти Анкара проявляет растущий интерес к региону, что выражается в различных формах интервенционистской политики. Исследуется изменение геополитической доктрины Турции, повлекшее смену восприятия Восточного Средиземноморья. Автор последовательно анализирует процесс отождествления региона Восточного Средиземноморья с более широкой идеей «враждебного региона» и место концепции «Голубой родины» в нем. Данная концепция рассматривается в связке с внутренними событиями в Турции, особенно в контексте изменения баланса в правящем блоке. Автор отмечает, что исследование идеологического конструирования региона Восточного Средиземноморья важно с той точки зрения, что оно позволяет выявить процесс конструирования проблем безопасности или инструментализации реальных угроз, посредством которых государства корректируют свою геополитическую ориентацию и осуществляют конкретные политические действия. Рассматривается влияние неудавшейся попытки государственного переворота в 2016 г. на правящий «силовой блок» и отражение этого события в геополитической доктрине Турции. В этом контексте автор исследует идею «выживания государства» ( devletin bekası ), появление которой стало результатом создания новой правящей коалиции в Турции и ее попыток укрепить верховенство государственной власти во внутренних делах. Наконец, в последней части анализируется идеологическая легитимация концепции «Голубая родина» в стратегии Турции в Восточном Средиземноморье, что позволяет определить изменение восприятия Анкарой общины турок-киприотов и Турецкой Республики Северного Кипра в целом.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Eastern Mediterranean</kwd><kwd>Turkey</kwd><kwd>Cyprus</kwd><kwd>energy</kwd><kwd>Erdoğan</kwd><kwd>Blue Homeland</kwd><kwd>state</kwd><kwd>power bloc</kwd><kwd>security</kwd><kwd>neo-ottomanism</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Восточное Средиземноморье</kwd><kwd>Турция</kwd><kwd>Кипр</kwd><kwd>энергия</kwd><kwd>Эрдоган</kwd><kwd>«Голубая родина»</kwd><kwd>государство</kwd><kwd>властный блок</kwd><kwd>безопасность</kwd><kwd>неоосманизм</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Adar, S. (2020). Understanding Turkey’s increasingly militaristic foreign policy. 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