İKLİM DEĞİŞİKLİĞİ VE ÇEVRESEL GÜVENLİK: TÜRKİYE ÖRNEĞİ
CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY: THE CASE OF TURKEY

Summary/Abstract: Since the 1980s, in International Relations discipline the “widening” of the concept of security led to several definitions, including environmental security, and the understanding of environmental problems such as climate change as a global security issue that requires joint efforts in the international system. Given the projections of the Mediterranean Basin to be one of the most affected regions by climate change, understanding Turkey’s perception and policies regarding environmental problems and climate change is important. This paper, thus, examines Turkey’s approach to climate change during the period from 2002 to 2019 under the Justice and Development Party rule. By drawing on the Copenhagen School’s politicization/securitization framework, this study claims that throughout the 2000s Turkish governments have made climate change visible as a problem, developed administrative, institutional and political initiatives, taken on responsibilities, albeit limited, and addressed climate change predominantly within the sustainable development framework, thereby politicized rather than securitized climate change.

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