Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International Journal of Political Science Urban Studies, cilt.6, ss.38-61, 2018 (Hakemli Dergi)
This article endeavours to analyse the European and Turkish discourses regarding the concept of the
“Mediterranean” and its variations both in temporal and spatial terms. The theoretical inspiration
of this article comes from the “geographical imagination as a way of thinking about world politics
and considering the relative importance of places and the relationships between contested narratives
of a specific region or territory”. Hence this study will examine different geographical imaginations
of the Mediterranean region that are projected onto both Turkish and European political discourse.
The perspective which is engaged here involves the historical geography, or geosophy put forward by
J. K. Wright (1946) who assumed that geographical knowledge is not only a knowledge of physical
characteristics and natural resources, but is also something being defined and redefined by the
political imagination of the perceiver. So in this article a “geosophical” perspective will be applied to the
Mediterranean region that plays both a historical and strategic role in Euro-Turkish relation