Editors’ Introduction: Spring 2025

The Spring 2025 issue of New Perspectives on Turkey arrives at a time of significant global developments, including the recent elections in the United States and their broad geopolitical implications, ongoing instability in Turkey's neighboring regions, and evolving yet uncertain changes regarding the Kurdish issue.In the midst of waves of political, economic, and cultural shifts, we offer in Issue no 72 a diverse array of articles covering gender politics, international relations, historical geopolitics, urban historiography, economic policy analysis, and anthropological studies.We were saddened by the passing away on October 18, 2024 of E. Fuat Keyman, a distinguished social scientist, following a brief but courageous battle with cancer.We commence this issue on a solemn note with an obituary by Berrin Koyuncu-Lorasda honoring Keyman's scholarship.Our first feature article, authored by Zafer eler, is a timely piece given that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has declared 2025 as the "Year of the Family," in order to further foster conservative familialist policies.eler's article delves into the gender politics of the AKP, examining how "gender ideology," linked with moral panics, has created an oppressive political climate for women and LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex ) communities, ultimately leading to Turkey's controversial withdrawal from the stanbul Convention.The subsequent article, authored by Elif Korkmaz Tmer and Josephine van Zeben, provides an analysis of Turkey's Europeanization process through climate change policies, illustrating the impact of European Union (EU)-Turkey trade relations on policy convergence and demonstrating the EU's soft power through regulatory and market influence.This article also provides a timely analysis as the United States seems to be retreating from the Western alliance and Europe is searching for new defense, energy, and foreign policies and alliances.The third article in this issue is a historical study by Fulya zkan on Turkish foreign policy during the Iranian oil crisis (1951)(1952)(1953).zkan explores how Turkey navigated Cold War geopolitics, prioritizing its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership and regional strategic interests amid Iran's internal political turmoil.Again, this article offers an interesting historical analysis of the role and significance of NATO at a time when NATO's future is uncertain.The next article, also on foreign policy, examines the Cyprus negotiations of 2017.Ahmet Szen and Devrim ahin analyze why the talks failed, emphasizing the ongoing