Diplomatik Reform ve Yenilikçilik Üzerine Palgrave Elkitabı, Paul Webster Hare,Juan Luis Manfredi-Sánchez,Kenneth Weisbrode, Editör, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, London, ss.143-166, 2023
In recent decades, states have extended their diplomatic efforts to
engage with the international community and their domestic audiences as a
tool of legitimization. With the advent of the internet, this trend has
culminated in regularized public interactions over social media. While
the internet presents yet another avenue for diplomatic agents to
communicate benign messages consistent with the aims and scope of
traditional diplomacy, social media also offers populist democracies and
authoritarian states the opportunity to broadcast politicized,
divisive, propagandistic, and personalistic messages aimed at domestic
consumption that are incompatible with the purposes of diplomacy. The
main goal of this chapter is to contribute to the ongoing discussion on
the potential adverse effects of diplomatic agents’ internet and social
media usage by exploring the Turkish government’s social media
practices. Turkey offers an opportune case study as a state that has
exhibited elements of populism, authoritarianism, and personalization of
politics, while also showcasing abundant examples of negative
diplomatic interactions on social media, stemming from the vicissitudes
of its relations with major powers and allies alike.