Ideological and Value Impact of Turkey on Processes in Information Space of Republic of Crimea

Abstract

The article focused on the ideological and value impact of the Republic of Turkey on interethnic processes in the information space of the Republic of Crimea in the period 2021-2022. As part of the study, there were analyzed statements by official Turkish representatives, materials of Telegram channels, media, funds and agencies in Turkish and Russian dedicated to discrediting Russia’s policy on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula, as well as updating issues of historical memory and distorting the facts of the common past of the peoples living on the territory of the modern Republic of Crimea. The methodological basis of the study was a systematic (complex) approach, event analysis, content analysis, analysis of data arrays, as well as an ideological and value approach. The considered cases of information impact demonstrate the focus of the Republic of Turkey and its current leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on promoting the ideologemes of «Pan-Turkism» within the ideological and value space of the Republic of Crimea, which is one of the Turkic-speaking regions of the Russian Federation. At the same time, both the applied ideologeme and its active support from the official authorities testify to the unrelenting ambitions of the current authorities in Turkey to secure the position of a supra-regional leader for the Republic of Turkey, including in the information space of a third state (the Russian Federation), which has no physical borders, in conditions of transformation of the modern system of international relations. Such a policy of Ankara poses a serious threat to official Moscow in the field of national security and can have a negative impact on the state of interethnic relations in Russia.