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BRIEF REMARKS ON PRESIDENT R.T. ERDOGAN AND HIS ALLIES’ METHODICAL USE OF LOGICAL FALLACIES
- Authors: Melakopides C.1
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Affiliations:
- University of Cyprus
- Issue: Vol 20, No 3 (2018)
- Pages: 376-385
- Section: Political processes in the modern world
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/19639
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-1438-2018-20-3-376-385
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Abstract
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.
About the authors
Costas Melakopides
University of Cyprus
Email: comel@ucy.ac.cy
PhD, Associate Professor (ret.) of the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus) CY-1678, Nicosia, Cyprus, 20537
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