THROUGHOUT COVID-19, INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY, IT IS AN ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT CREATED BY FOREIGN AIDS AS AN EXAMPLE OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY Cover Image

COVID-19 SÜRECİNDE TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ DEVLETİNİN ULUSLARARASI HALKLA İLİŞKİLERİ, KAMU DİPLOMASİSİ ÖRNEĞİ OLARAK DIŞ YARDIMLARLA YARATTIĞI ETKİ ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME
THROUGHOUT COVID-19, INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY, IT IS AN ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT CREATED BY FOREIGN AIDS AS AN EXAMPLE OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY

Author(s): Berrin Balay Tuncer
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Security and defense, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Dicle Üniversitesi, Sivil Havacılık Yüksekokulu
Keywords: Public Diplomacy; Humanitarian Diplomacy; Soft Power; International Public Relations; Pandemic; Coronavirus;

Summary/Abstract: The date of December 31, 2019 is the beginning of the period when our lives will radically change and have already changed. Our world is the starting point of the days when different reasons and consequences are unpredictable but will definitely differentiate our life, the world, economic, social, political, social security, national and international security and education. Maybe it will not only change life practices but also the beginning of a new era. We will return from the global village to our own village. Together with our nuclear family, we will create ourselves, from virtual education, which was once seen as a utopia, to education without schools. December 31, 2019 is the date when Coronovirus, spreading from Wuhan, People's Republic of China, was detected, named and announced to the world. The virus, one of the seven members of the Coronavirus family, was named Covid-19 when it was born in 2019. The distribution of Corona Virus to the world and the World Health Organization's first epidemic, With the announcement of the pandemic on March 10, 2020, it took its place in the records as the most unknown epidemic of the century. Of the seven viruses identified as the Corona Family, MERS, SARS, Ebola were also identified as the deadliest, high-transmission, and most uncontrollable. Turkey, with the beginning of the epidemic in different countries, primarily China (mask, overalls, health kits, breathing apparatus, etc.) occurring with medical aid began to send by military cargo planes. Turkey public diplomacy has managed to show its global power in the international arena with foreign aid, which we can interpret as a soft power. We will examine these aids in terms of international public relations, in other words, as one of the important tools of public diplomacy. In this study, Turkey's made in 88 countries began a controlled make normalization between May 15, 2020 date of the March 11, 2020 outside (humanitarian) within the framework of assistance, Presidential Communication Presidency website, will be assessed by an online newspaper text and twitter shares.

  • Issue Year: 4/2020
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 438-455
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Turkish