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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">RUDN Journal of Political Science</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Political Science</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Политология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-1438</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-1446</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">19639</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-1438-2018-20-3-376-385</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>POLITICAL PROCESSES IN CONTEMPORARY WORLD</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ ПРОЦЕССЫ В СОВРЕМЕННОМ МИРЕ</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">BRIEF REMARKS ON PRESIDENT R.T. ERDOGAN AND HIS ALLIES’ METHODICAL USE OF LOGICAL FALLACIES</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>КРАТКИЕ ЗАМЕЧАНИЯ О МЕТОДИЧЕСКОМ ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИИ ЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ПРОТИВОРЕЧИЙ ПРЕЗИДЕНТОМ Р.Т. ЭРДОГАНОМ И ЕГО СТОРОННИКАМИ</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Melakopides</surname><given-names>Costas</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Мелакопидес</surname><given-names>Костас</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">PhD, Associate Professor (ret.) of the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus)</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">PhD по политологии, ассоциированный профессор факультета социальных и политических наук Университета Кипра (Республика Кипр)</bio><email>comel@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">Университет Кипра</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2018</year></pub-date><volume>20</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 20, NO3 (2018)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 20, №3 (2018)</issue-title><fpage>376</fpage><lpage>385</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2018-11-08"><day>08</day><month>11</month><year>2018</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2018, Melakopides C.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2018, Мелакопидес К.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2018</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Melakopides C.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Мелакопидес К.</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/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/19639">https://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/19639</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en">This article has several aims. First, it is focused on revealing the disconcerting recent policies of President of Turkey R.T. Erdogan and his associates towards Greece and the Republic of Cyprus. These policies are characterized by aggressiveness and bellicosity, constituting a paradigm case of Turkey’s broader geopolitical ambitions. Second, an attempt is made to account for R.T. Erdogan’s probable political intentions and geopolitical ambitions via a number of explanatory hypotheses rationalizing their “incomprehensible” nature. And third, the article will determine the principal methods and means used in the foreign policy decision-making of Erdogan’s regime, and will expand on his skillful employment of logical fallacies that have remained undetected in Erdogan-related bibliography.</abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru">Представленная статья имеет несколько целей. Во-первых, она направлена на исследование современной вызывающей тревогу политики Президента Турции Р.Т. Эрдогана и его соратников в отношении Греции и Республики Кипр. Автор утверждает, что данная политика характеризуется агрессивностью и воинственностью, что является парадигмой более широких геополитических амбиций Турции. Во-вторых, предпринимается попытка объяснить вероятные политические намерения и геополитические амбиции Р.Т. Эрдогана с помощью ряда объяснительных гипотез, обосновывающих их «непонятный» характер. В-третьих, статья имеет цель определить основные методы и средства, используемые при принятии внешнеполитических решений политическим режимом Президента Р.Т. Эрдогана. Автор полагает, что внешнеполитическая риторика Президента Р.Т. Эрдогана и его окружения в отношении Греции и Республики Кипр включает умелое использование логических противоречий, которые являются неисследованными в актуальной библиографии, посвященной Р.Т. Эрдогану.</trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>R.T. 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