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16 Hague J. Dipl. 1 (2021)

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BRILL
NIJHOFF                                                       brill.com/hjd
Turkey's Islamic Public Diplomacy in the
Post-Davutoglu Era: Neo-Ottomanism,
Humanitarianism and the Legitimation
of Hamas after the Arab Spring
Hae WonJeong
Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
haewon jeong@adu.ac.ae
Received: 15 July 2020; revised: 25 November 2020; accepted: 9 January 2021
Summary
What are the public diplomacy strategies for legitimising a pro-Islamist foreign policy?
This research unveils how Turkey, which has been a vocal supporter of the Muslim
Brotherhood and its affiliates across the Middle East since the Arab Spring, draws on
pan-Islamic soft power, neo-Ottoman myth-making and public diplomacy strategies
embedded in the precepts of the strategic depth doctrine to rationalise its pro-Hamas
foreign policy position under the Justice and Development Party (AKP). By employing
critical discourse analysis to the political speeches delivered by the Turkish govern-
ment officials in domestic and international fora, this article suggests that Turkey has
sought to legitimise its pro-Islamist foreign policy and subvert the terrorist designa-
tion of Hamas internationally through the humanitarian, Islamic and neo-Ottoman
framings of the Palestinian issue. It is argued that Turkey's public diplomacy of Hamas
constitutes part and parcel of the AKP's grand strategy to project Islamic soft power.
Keywords
Justice and Development Party (AKP) - strategic depth doctrine - neo-Ottomanism -
public diplomacy - Hamas

© KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2021  DOI:10.1163/1871191X-BJA10059

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