Bu kitap Türkiye’de daha önce çok fazla çalışılmamış olan askeri kültür konusunu farklı boyutlarıyla ele almakta ve Türk siyasal hayatındaki önemli dönüm noktalarını askeri kültürdeki değişimlerle açıklamaktadır. Bu bağlamda bu kitap Türk askeri kültürünü, devrimcilik, gardiyanlık ve apolitikleşme olarak üç farklı dönemde ele almakta, söz konusu yaklaşımı teorik bir düzene oturtmak için pozitif-demokratik, negatif-demokratik, pozitif-antidemokratik, negatif- antidemokratik ve değişken modeller olmak üzere 5 ayrı model içerisinde incelemektedir.

Türkiye jeo-politik önemi, Avrupa, Asya ve Afrika kıtalarına olan yakınlığı ve merkez konumda bulunmasının yanı sıra,  değişik iklim, coğrafi şekil, verimlilik vb. açıdan da farklı özelliklere sahiptir. Tüm bu özellikler, ülkenin farklı açılardan kalkınmasını gündeme getirmiştir. Kıyı kesimler daha çok turizm ve sanayi ile gelişme imkânına sahip iken, iç kesimler ve kırsal alanlar ise daha çok niş turizm, tarım ve hayvansal ürün ve sanayi ile gelişmesini sağlayabilecek durumdadır.

Türkiye doğal kaynakları, hayvancılık ve gıda ürünleri açısından dünyada eşine az rastlanır, şanslı olan ülkelerden biridir. Ülke genelinde, çoğunlukla kırsal alanlarda yetiştirilmekte olan ürün çeşitliliği bol,  katkı maddesi içermeyen güvenli organik gıdalar, hem ülke içindeki tüketiciler hem de uluslararası pazarlarda  gittikçe artan oranda tercih edilir duruma gelmiştir.

Ülke genelinde ve özellikle kırsal alanlarda üretilen ürün ve hizmetlerin değerlendirilmesi, ekonomiye kazandırılması ve satışa konu olması gerekmektedir. Çünkü ürünün mükemmelliği veya eşsizliği de ancak satışına ve tüketicilerce bilinmesine ve kullanılmasına bağlıdır. Bu bağlamda sektörel pazarlama önem arz etmektedir.

Kırsal kalkınmanın sunduğu imkânların sektörler itibariyle ortaya çıkarıldığı, elde edilen ürünlerin  ulusal ve uluslararası pazarlarda rekabetçi güce ulaşabilmesi için pazarlama disiplini çerçevesinde stratejik bir bakış açısına ihtiyaç duyulduğunun vurgulandığı, ciddi ve titiz bir çalışma ile hazırlanan bu eserin, öncelikle makro düzeyde stratejik karar vericilere, iş alemine ve akademik camiaya yol gösterici ve rehber olması dileği ile…

Turkey and African countries decade’srelationships provides a concise and wide-ranging introduction to the subject, spanning from the earlier era of the Ottoman Empire, to the Turkish Republic and later, to the Justice and Development Party.

This is an introductory book which provides sources and materials on Turkey and African countries relations. Drawing on history from the Ottoman Empire, to Turkish Republic and the Justice and Development Party, this book provides firsthand information on their relations. Showing how Turkey and African countries that are located on different continents established relationship, it goes on to consider how they support each other at international stages. The book deals, in particular, with political, economic, social and cultural relations between Turkey and African countries; it explorers the challenges they face in military and security terms. This general introductory text benefits students, scholars and researchers eager to gain an insight into Turkey and African countries relations.

Kieran E. Uchehara was formerly a lecturer at Atılım University, Ankara, Turkey. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Hasan Kalyoncu University, Gaziantep, Turkey.

The book “Digital Transformation in Banking Industry – Financial Security, Audit and Business Perspective” explores the effect of digital transformation on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regime by focusing on digital Know Your Client (eKYC), artificial intelligence in AML, crypto currency, and virtual assets by drawing attention on ongoing compliance challenges in “virtual assets era”. Furthermore, it explores Fintechs and future of conventional banking as well as remote auditing in banking industry.

This edition explores Fintechs and the future of conventional banking. This is to examine the Fintech structures that have recently gained great importance in the world and to evaluate the possible effects of the developments on traditional banking in the future. Considering the innovations that Fintech structures bring to payment systems, their impact on credit markets and the structure of blockchain-linked contracts, it is expected that they will have greater effects on the financial system in the future. In this context, the book analysis the effects of these structures on traditional banking by including the recent literature on the subject.

Remote auditing is one of the common methods that is suitable for today’s world with its flexible and technology-based structure. In our book we have dedicated a chapter which explores remote auditing (also known as virtual audit) and challenges as well as advantages of applying it.

A chapter is dedicated to AML Programs in Banking Industry in Covid-19 Era, which identifies challenges, good practices, and policy reactions to new ML/TF risks which can be also defined as financial security risks arising during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis and due to impact of digital transformation in banking industry.

A special attention is dedicated to the artificial intelligence in AML structures in banking and the role of artificial intelligence for detecting money laundering cases by decreasing the number of “false alerts” and increasing the quality of “real matches”. The book explores the role of artificial intelligence on increasing the efficiency and decreasing the manual work on daily basis for AML Compliance Officers.

The book explores virtual currency and blockchain by identifying ongoing compliance challenges from decentralized platforms, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchangers, anonymity-enhanced cryptocurrencies, and “jurisdictional arbitrage” (the ability of criminal actors to route their activity through countries with weak AML/CFT regimes). Blockchain/ Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) applications aside, certain properties of Virtual Currencies (including VCs associated with Initial Coin Offering – ICOs) entail special Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) risks, some of which are detailed in our book.

Nowadays the Digital Identity (DI) services help financial institutions, especially banking industry, to offer several services efficiently and properly to their clients. By keeping this in mind, the measures for Covid-19, offering services in distance remains the best solution in the market. The DI provides provable and sharable identity, which is particularly important when on-boarding clients but also has a key protection role to play when users are transacting. In our book we have dedicated a chapter related to digital ID system and eKYC.

We believe this edition contributes to current literature for the effect of digital transformation in banking industry from the financial security, audit and business perspective and it is important for compliance officers and bankers, policy makers, strategists, academics, students, and professionals in the field of compliance.