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Determinants of Turkey’s foreign aid behavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2019

Hüseyin Zengin  and
Abdurrahman Korkmaz
Hüseyin Zengin
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, [email protected]
Abdurrahman Korkmaz
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, İzmir Kâtip Çelebi University, [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper analyzes a hundred Turkish aid recipient countries in order to explore the determinants of Turkey’s foreign aid behavior during the period 2005–2016. By estimating the model with the system-GMM estimator, it is demonstrated that Turkey is a regular donor whose amount of foreign aid is positively influenced by the export-based embeddedness of Turkish firms in the recipient countries. Recipients with low levels of per-capita income attract more Turkish aid. However, this income’s effect diminishes in states that were formerly part of Ottoman territory. Recipient countries in an aid relationship with OECD-DAC members also receive more foreign aid from Turkey. In addition, Turkey disburses more foreign aid to recipient countries that can be classified as Turkic republics. Turkish foreign aid behavior is also motivated by Ottomanism, especially in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Finally, and interestingly, although Islam has a considerable impact on attracting Turkish aid overall, this impact disappears in former Ottoman states and Turkic republics.

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Foreign aidIslamismOttomanismrising donors
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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 60 , May 2019 , pp. 109 - 135
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