On April 13, 2017, the Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research hosted a PeaceTalk: Young Scholar Series seminar at Bilkent University. Our guest speaker, \u0130smail Erkam Sula, PhD Candidate from Bilkent University International Relations Department, made a presentation entitled \u201cTurkey\u2019s Foreign Policy Roles and Events Dataset (TFPRED): Quantifying the parallelism between role conceptions and role performance\u201d.
\nHis study is based on a compound of two tools in the foreign policy analysis (FPA) literature: \u2018Role Theory\u2019 and \u2018Event Data\u2019. While combining these two tools, this study observes the parallelism between Turkish foreign policy (TFP) \u2018words\u2019 and \u2018deeds\u2019. The study focuses on a quantitative comparison of Turkey\u2019s foreign policy role conceptions and practices directed at five surrounding regions (the Balkans, Southern Caucasus, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Euro-Atlantic Region). For this purpose, the Mr. Sula designed and constructed the Turkey\u2019s Foreign Policy Roles and Events Dataset (TFPRED), which combines qualitative and quantitative analysis and contains an extensive amount of data collected from news reports and the foreign policy speeches of Turkish decision makers. The TFPRED enables researchers to observe the dynamics of the relationship between TFP decision-makers\u2019 vision (reflected in their speeches) and the actual conduct of Turkey\u2019s foreign policy (foreign policy events). Such dynamics provide insights into how the foreign policy machinery works in Turkey, so as to contribute to the emergence of a theory of TFP.<\/p>\n
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