Turkish Cyber Insecurity
Turkish Cyber Insecurity

Author(s): Öncel Sençerman
Subject(s): Security and defense, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkish; cyber insecurity; cybersecurity;
Summary/Abstract: Cyber insecurity is relatively a new term in cyber studies. Cybersecurity is a term that gained a popular usage in the 1990s with the proliferation of the use of the internet and computer systems. Cyber insecurity is more of a term introduced in the beginning of the new millennium with a rise of global cyber threats and cyber-attacks. The cyber-attack on Estonia in 2007 following the ‘Bronze Soldier’ protests in Tallinn is considered as a milestone in terms of both cybersecurity and cyber insecurity drawing attention to the importance of providing national cybersecurity and to the threats and assaults made by using different means in an ‘anarchic’ environment of cyberspace. Akyeşilmen alleges that one of the fundamental aspects of cyberspace is its ‘anarchic’ nature, characterized by decentralization and polycentricism, which extends beyond the traditional understanding in physical international relations. This anarchic nature brings along with numerous risks for the states. These risks have been on the rise owing to recent technological developments, which reflected on the international reports as the concerns of the states. The World Economic Forum (WEF) introduced ‘cyber insecurity’ as one of the severe global risks in its 2023 and 2024 reports.

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