Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ISSS-IS Annual Conference Washington D.C. 2025 (ISA-APSA), District Of Columbia, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 16 - 18 Ekim 2025, ss.1-2, (Özet Bildiri)
As intelligence education evolves worldwide, Türkiye is emerging as a regional actor seeking to globalize its intelligence training programs. Türkiye’s growing emphasis on civilian-oriented intelligence education reflects an underlying soft power strategy. This proceeding explores how Türkiye’s intelligence education ecosystem (Turkish National Police Academy, National Intelligence Academy etc.), while still nationally embedded, contains seeds of transnational outreach. It investigates recent initiatives to include international students in master’s-level programs, the use of English-language curricula in programs, and selective courses. These efforts signal a shift toward educational internationalization, aimed at projecting Türkiye’s influence through the professionalization of security knowledge.
The proceeding argues that intelligence education is becoming a subtle tool of Türkiye’s soft power arsenal, complementing its foreign policy and public diplomacy goals. By training foreign cadres in state-centric yet civilian-accessible models of intelligence thinking, Türkiye positions itself as a hub for security education in the Global South. The study concludes by proposing a framework for further globalizing Turkish intelligence education without compromising its national priorities, thereby enhancing Türkiye’s academic legitimacy in an increasingly competitive geopolitical knowledge economy.