TURKEY'S MILITARY POWER IN THE 2000S: AN ASSESSMENT FOR MEASUREMENT METHODS

Mainstream theories of international relations give greater importance to the measurement of countries' military capacity. Although Singer's "Correlates of War" has been the most popular measurement method for years, its reliability has increasingly been questioned. Many students of Turkish politics use either Singer's dataset or gross military indicators such as the number of military personnel and military expenditures. This paper aims to show the shortcomings of using such gross data and proposes some alternative methods in measuring Turkey's changing military capacity in the 2000s.