A Review on Terrorism and Radicalization Literature in Turkey: Academic Articles

30.01.2022 | Erol Başaran BURAL

The aim of this study is to examine the terrorism and radicalization literature in Turkey by comparing the academic articles published in peer-reviewed journals in Turkey with those published internationally in terms of quantity and content. For this purpose, academic articles published in peer-reviewed national journals which constitute an important part of the Turkish literature, were compared with the articles published internationally. Academic articles published in Turkish national peer-reviewed journals on terrorism and radicalization was searched on the “TR Dizin” website, which operates under The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. The data was analyzed with the “content analysis” method, which enables large volume texts to be reduced to sub categories. The titles and abstracts of the articles listed by “TR Dizin” were collected under a word document; frequently repeated words were identified and visualized with word clouds. It is among the results of this research that terrorism and radicalization studies in Turkey is mostly behind the studies published in foreign publications in terms of quantitative terms, and that they mostly repeat the articles published in foreign publications in terms of their content.

Bural, E.B. (2022). A Review on Terrorism and Radicalization Literature in Turkey: Academic Articles. Journal of Terrorism and Radicalization Studies, 1(1), pp. 67101, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/trad.3