International Status Research Articles

War and criminal law policy of Ukraine: challenges and responses

The article is devoted to the characteristics of the main challenges of the war for the development of Ukrainian society and the state and responses to them in the field of criminal law policy formation and implementation. The purpose of the article is to provide a systemic characterization of the changes that have taken place in the Criminal Code of Ukraine since February 24, 2022 and are aimed at responding to challenges related to martial law, as well as determining their necessity, sufficiency, and adequacy.
 The empirical basis of the study is made up of the materials of 225 court verdicts for the commission of criminal offenses provided for by Articles 111, 111-1, 111-2, 114-2, 436-2, 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, as well as the results of expert assessments and surveys of 92 employees of pre-trial investigation bodies of the National of the police, 35 employees of the prosecutor’s office, 30 investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv, Odesa and Zaporizhzhia regions. The analysis of these sources made it possible to identify and describe the existing problems of criminal law regulation of social relations in a number of spheres, which have been exposed to the greatest negative influence since the beginning of the full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
 A description and explanation of the main and indirect threats associated with the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine is provided. The changes in the law on criminal liability, which occurred as a reaction to the specified threats in the form of criminalization of socially dangerous acts, as well as in the practice of applying criminal law norms on collaborationism, aiding the aggressor state, justification, denial of armed aggression against Ukraine, war crimes, etc., are analyzed. Their shortcomings and defects are identified, proposals are formulated for their elimination through improvement both at the law-making and law-enforcement levels. The need for Ukraine to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Kampala annexes to it is emphasized. Equally significant is the improvement of domestic legislation and the practice of its application in relation to countering collaborationism, aiding the aggressor state, as well as war crimes, crimes of aggression, and crimes against humanity.
 The inadequacy of the application of norms on war crimes in those cases in which terrorism takes place has been established at the level of a separate scientific and law-enforcement problem. The possibility of the coexistence of the phenomena of terrorism and aggressive war, the presence of signs of war crimes and terrorist acts in the actions of combatants has been proven. The key factor in distinguishing these phenomena should not be the international legal status of the guilty person as a combatant, but the content of the subjective side of the composition of the criminal offense with a significant coincidence of the signs of the objective side of war crimes and terrorist acts.

International legal determination of the national minorities’ status in the Central and Eastern European countries within the Versailles system

Peculiarities of the international legal status determination of the national minorities within the Versailles system have been studied using the example of a number of Central and Eastern European countries. The governments of Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary were asked, based on the norms of international law, to develop appropriate provisions for the protection of the rights of national minorities in order to prevent new conflicts and threats to peace.
 The system of treaties, declarations and agreements, which were supposed to ensure the observance of the rights of national minorities and whose guarantor was the League of Nations, has been analyzed. In practice, this was embodied in giving minorities the right to submit petitions to the Council or Assembly of the League of Nations, as well as in the activities of the Permanent Chamber of International Justice. The right to submit petitions was used at different times by representatives of the Ruthenian minority in Czechoslovakia, the Russian minority in Eastern Galicia, the Jewish minority in Hungary, the German minority in Poland, etc.
 The weaknesses of this system have been identified, which prevented the creation of effective international mechanisms for the protection of the rights of national minorities in the specified regions of Europe. In particular, it has been emphasized that the majority of treaties, conventions, treatises, etc. were openly sabotaged by the countries that were supposed to fulfill them. The governments of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe considered the proposed system unequal, because its conditions did not apply to a number of other multinational states that had similar problems. Conflict situations surrounding the problem of national minorities continued to arise. They were caused by various factors: from divided loyalties and irredentist movements to manifestations of governmental and social discrimination.

The Dilemma and Solutions of Climate Refugees under the Perspective of International Law

Recently, the international society has paid increasing attention to the saving of climate refugees. Climate refugees are people who are forced to migrate across borders because their survival rights and development rights are threatened or will be threatened due to abnormal climate changes. However, as the international status of climate refugees is still unclear, the protection of their rights also faces many difficulties. First, it is difficult for climate refugees to obtain legal status in international law. Second, the existing international migration system is not comprehensive. Third, the judicial relief method is not perfect, and there exists increasing difficulty of the climate refugees to prove their identities as plaintiffs. Therefore, this essay advocates that climate refugees should be incorporated into the refugee protection system. In other words, international legislation should be adopted to make specific provisions for climate refugees, to clarify the scope of responsibility of international entities for the protection of climate refugees, to establish a special relief fund for climate refugees, to reverse the burden of the proof in judicial relief, and to actively promote the improvement of the system for the protection of the rights of climate refugees under the framework of the international law.

ВІЙНА ТА НАУКА В УКРАЇНІ: МИ МОЖЕМО ПОСПРИЯТИ ПЕРЕМОЗІ

We are happy to present a new issue of the Proceedings of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Medical Sciences, No. 1, 2022. First of all, we are grateful to the Armed Forces of Ukraine for this possibility, as today is the 100th day of the heroic resistance of Ukrainians in the criminal Russian war. We are proud of our defenders who are fighting the biggest threat to humanity in the 21st century. 12 million Ukrainians have been forced to leave their homes, 1,123 educational institutions have been destroyed, and 641 healthcare facilities are no longer functioning, while the number of civil casualties cannot be identified due to the brutality and hostilities of the villains. The number of murdered and deported Ukrainians is impossible to determine. However, the entire world knows about the bravery of Ukrainians, about Mariupol and Azovstal – two symbols of steel resilience and invincibility of the morale of the Ukrainian people in the fight for the independence of its Motherland and resistance to rascism. In the article, Ya. Shuba provides a detailed explanation of the meaning of this term and its similarity to fascism [1]. Today, more than ever, we need a victory in the information and psychological war, waged by the enemy. Therefore, science and art (Fig. 1) are two leading tools in our fight for independence, which are also sensitive indicators of events in real-time not just in Ukraine, but across the globe, too. Be sure to read Y. Yaskiv’s address to the world academic community [2]. Coping with the challenges and hardship of the contemporary times and remembering the bitter experience of World War II, the primary task of the progressive global community is to maintain the functioning of Ukrainian scientific medical publications, publishing houses, and academic communities. Ensuring the possibility to conduct scientific research for our scientists in the laboratories of partner institutions and fellow scientists, will enhance the international presence of Ukrainian science. Such international publications will help successfully boost the readability and quotability of articles prepared by Ukrainian scientists and scientists of Ukrainian origin, as well as represent Ukraine in global science with dignity. Publications by Pishel V. et al. and Kukhlevskyy S. et al. are examples of fruitful cooperation encouraging further development of the international status of Ukrainian science [3, 4]. The success of the consolidation of Ukrainian science in the international arena is related to the need for changes in science management. Science warrants progress. Therefore, the science generating progress, ideas and products at the international level, should be supported. The science to be supported must not be determined by titles, positions and connections, but by actual international achievements. Diversification of funding tools, more freedom in the management of scientific works, and, certainly, personal responsibility of the scientist or supervisor for the results of their work, are those few mechanisms that have proved their efficiency. The internationalization of Ukrainian science also plays a positive role, as it will require the establishment of such quality assurance methods. The attention to the principles of academic integrity, elimination of the practice of predatory journals and predatory conferences hunting for new pray every day to implement their financial scams, will help create a healthy scientific environment contributing to progress and enhanced professional skills of young scientists and specialists. It is important to retain the organization of scientific and practical conferences by professional Ukrainian institutions that have many years of experience, are popular and constitute a required precondition for support from the real scientific society in Ukraine. They include Christmas readings in Lviv and conferences dedicated to the issues of scientific writing, reviewing and proof-reading articles prepared with support from the Shevchenko Scientific Society. We welcome you to review a detailed report about them prepared by Zubchenko S. et al. and U. Telishevska, O. Telishevska, and watch recordings of participants’ lectures on the YouTube channels [5, 6]. We do hope that planned conferences, like BeckFest 2022, but postponed due to the war-time will realized soon. We sincerely believe that readers will find articles devoted to medical issues of the coronavirus disease interesting [7-10] and they will help them understand its possible social and psychological consequences [11-12]. We believe that the active editorial policy of the Proceedings of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Medical Sciences, which has been indexed by the Scopus scientometric bibliographic database since 2021, has a positive trend for entering the contemporary international arena and will help bring our Victory closer (Fig. 2). Our belief in the Victory is reflected on the cover of our journal (collage by Ivan Dzis) – Glory to Ukraine! We will overcome all enemies: From plagues to people! Together to Victory!

АНГЛІЙСЬКА МОВА ТА ЇЇ МАЙБУТНЄ: ТРИ СЦЕНАРІЇ

Currently, English claims the status of not just an international, but the first world language. The key role in its dissemination is played not so much by ease of learning, but by the political, economic, scientific, technical and cultural leadership of the Englishspeaking countries. Now there are three times more speakers using English as a second language than those for whom it is native. Almost all language ratings in various parameters give it undoubted superiority. Despite this, few people think about the future of the English language. Some researchers predict that in the future it will forever establish itself as the main or even the only world language (D. Crystal). Other researchers consider its dominance as a temporary phenomenon: from the second half of the XXI century Chinese, Hindi/Urdu, Spanish, and Arabic will compete with it on equal terms for international status in their regions (D. Greddol). One can hardly be sure that in the future the current status of the English language will not change in any way, because earlier all international languages gave up their positions sooner or later. Using the scenario method, the article predicts the long-term prospects for the English language. Three variants of its further development with different results are proposed. Scenario 1: English is rapidly spreading in all countries, in almost all socially significant areas, becomes a single world language and holds this status for an indefinitely long time. Scenario 2: because of spreading on all continents, English experiences the substratum influence of local languages, new variants of it arise, which subsequently leads to its fragmentation with subsequent divergence. Scenario 3: English will retain its integrity, but will lose its leading role in international communication in favor of other languages. The probability of each of the above scenarios is estimated.

Influence of Knowledge Management Capability on Internationalization Status of Public Universities in Kenya

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to analyze the influence of knowledge management capability on internationalization status of public universities in Kenya.
 Methodology: The study was conducted in 31 public chartered universities in Kenya and employed a descriptive research design. A cross-sectional survey involving both analytical and descriptive methods to address the objectives of the study was used. To analyze quantitative data, descriptive factor analysis and inferential statistics (correlation and regression) were used. To analyze quantitative data, descriptive factor analysis and inferential statistics (correlation and regression) were used.
 Results: Regression results showed that knowledge management capability had a significant and positive influence on internationalization status.
 Recommendations: The study further recommends that universities should utilize knowledge to enhance internationalization status through development of knowledge management policies and to encourage employees to utilize the knowledge gained on internationalization to develop new innovations and come up with new products and services. It is important for policy makers in public universities to develop robust and dedicated knowledge management capabilities. This is because knowledge management lead to growth and expansion of organizations internationally and subsequently improve the firm’s performance.

China’s Stance on the Normativity of International Climate Change Law: An Interactional Account

Abstract Existing analytical accounts of China’s interactions with international law are underdeveloped. This article proposes the use of an interactional model to explain the normativity of international law from three perspectives: shared understandings, normative qualities of international law, and the reception of individual countries to these normative qualities. Furthermore, the interactional model is used to explain how conceptions of the normativity of international climate change law are developed in China. It finds that China has accepted the common responsibility system under an enhanced transparency framework, while adhering to the facilitative nature of international commitments to accommodate the needs of developing countries and stringently insisting on obligations of support from developed countries being met. In this, China’s position on the normative qualities of international climate change law is influenced by its international identities, power status, national interests, and domestic understandings of anthropogenic climate change. The interactional account that follows implies that future research on China’s interactions with international law should be cautious of both Western centrism and Chinese exceptionalism and consider both the legitimacy of international law and China’s own domestic context.

Problems of preserving the international legal status of Lake Baikal in the light of the analysis of the practice of excluding objects from the World Heritage List (Part 1)

This research is the first part of the article, in which, based on the analysis of historical precedents, a study of the procedure for excluding UNESCO World Heritage sites from the corresponding World Heritage List is conducted. The authors highlight common problems in the protection of World Heritage sites, the interpolation of which in relation to such a World Natural heritage site as Lake Baikal creates prospects for preventing the occurrence of the most negative consequences. A detailed analysis of the difficulties in the conservation of World Heritage sites, which lead to the exclusion of objects from the World Heritage List, based on world experience, is proposed. In the work, one of the problems of preserving World Heritage sites, which served, in particular, as the main reason for the exclusion from the List of such an object as the Arabian Antelope Reserve, is called insufficient certainty, as well as insufficient clarity in establishing the boundaries of World Heritage sites. The authors substantiate this thesis and draw a conclusion about the importance of strict compliance by the participating countries with the norms formed in the main relevant international documents. In addition, it is noted that the exclusion of an object from the UNESCO World Heritage List may lead to the appearance of non-compliance of the object with the criteria of outstanding universal value.

Fundamental Collateral: A Concept to Understand Global Macroeconomics and Financial Market

The systematic importance of US Treasuries for the global financial market stems from their attribute of fundamental collateral. This paper attempts to use the concept of fundamental collateral, as well as its basic features and functions, to explain how US Treasuries have strengthened the international status of the US dollar, and examines the prospects of a diversifying global fundamental collateral market.

Chinese Character Culture Communication and Comparative Analysis Based on Big Data Visualization

With the promotion of China’s international status, the study of Chinese characters has become the trend of scholars all over the world. Nowadays, the international promotion of Chinese has become an important part of the national diplomatic strategy. With the rapid development of big data visualization technology, Chinese culture can be spread quickly, and it is easy to achieve the above requirements to achieve visual accessibility. In view of the problems existing in the current dissemination of Chinese culture, such as too scattered dissemination content, unsystematic dissemination channels, and poor dissemination effect, this paper puts forward a method of Chinese character culture dissemination based on big data visualization. Firstly, the visual features of Chinese characters are recognized, and the rules of Chinese characters are detected; secondly, the large data visualization analysis of Chinese character imaging is carried out, and the performance comparison under different iterations is compared. Chinese visual technology has obvious advantages in the effect and performance of Chinese character transmission. Finally, the development trend of Chinese communication is analyzed, and the acceptance, speed, coverage, understanding, learning degree, and practical degree of Chinese communication abroad are compared. The big data visualization model has certain advantages in functional comparison.

How Spain’s International Status Was Enhanced After the Withdrawal of Its Troops From Iraq

This paper researches how and why the decision to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq between March and April 2004 was taken. The new Spanish president, José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, took this decision in the period between the day after his electoral victory, on 14 March, and the day that his government took office, on 18 April. The decision was made possible by the previous work of informal diplomacy carried out by Zapatero’s future minister of defence, José Bono, and his future minister of foreign affairs, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, who were holding discreet contacts with several international leaders of the military coalition present at the time in Iraq. This fact had a strong impact on the prestige of the new government in the eyes of Spanish public opinion and on the strengthening of alliances with European countries opposed to the invasion. On the contrary, it brought Spain to have one of the worst relations periods of all times with the US administration.

Reflective-Thinking and Resilience as Predictors of Professionalism in Master of Social Work Students

ABSTRACT Social work students are expected to learn about and demonstrate several professional competencies during their academic and fieldwork studies. This study explored the associations between professionalism, resilience, and reflective thinking in a sample of 212 students enrolled in a Master of Social Work program. The sample was predominantly female, aged 20 to 29, with an international student enrollment status. Students completed a demographic questionnaire, the Professionalism Assessment Tool (PAT), Reflective Thinking Scale (RTS), and Resilience at University (RAU) instruments. Multilinear regression analyses with bootstrapping identified three RTS variables—Critical Reflection (p = .005), Habitual Action (p = .022), and Understanding (p = .026)—as significant predictors of students’ performance on the PAT Relationships With Others subscale. The RAU factor, Maintaining Perspective, was determined to be a strong predictor in three key PAT subscales: Citizenship & Professional Engagement (p = .01), Lifelong Learning & Adaptability (p = .003), and Relationships With Others (p = .004). The outcomes highlight the importance and relevance of reflective-thinking and resilience skills for social work students’ acquisition of desirable knowledge, attributes, and practices related to professionalism. The implications for social work education curricula and recommendations for further research are also discussed in the article.

Data protection record of processing activities and privacy notice generator toolkit by EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute

EMBL-EBI, Europe's biomolecular data hub, is a world leader in managing and analysing big data in biology and making it freely available to scientists worldwide. Researchers can access the open data resources and related services of EMBL-EBI by submitting minimal personal data. In May 2018, following the enforcement of the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), EMBL adopted the EMBL Internal Policy no. 68 on General Data Protection. It reflects European data protection principles while remaining within the bounds of EMBL's international legal status. As a result of GDPR and EMBL's Internal Policy No. 68 coming into force, 190 EMBL-EBI user-facing services that processed personal data in 2018 were required to have Records of Processing Activities (RoPA) and Privacy Notices (PN). EMBL-EBI's solution was to develop a Data Protection Engine (DPE) that automatically generates RoPA and PN when a service owner answers a series of questions. In addition to maintaining a centrally located database for RoPAs and PNs, the DPE tracks changes to the documents, as well as providing versioning and time-stamped updates. It is the aim of this article to share the EMBL-EBI IT department’s experience with designing and implementing the DPE and providing a toolkit to let others develop a similar solution and benefit from our experience. Implementation steps, benefits, challenges, opportunities, and practices are discussed and critically analysed.

Status and the Federal Republic of Germany: an international exception?

ABSTRACT An avoidance of overt status-seeking behaviour contrasts the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) with many other states. Does the FRG desire international status? Is it substantially different? This article contends that the FRG appreciates status and acquired it through economic and civil achievement, and relatively subtle diplomatic and political means. It does not engage in blatant status pursuit nor ostentatiously impress that which it has. Yet there are rarer examples of more robust status defence, lending insight into an evolving national persona. The article explores the status concept and variations in status as a political motivation. It then examines the FRG in general and specific contexts: sport, the goal of a permanent UNSC seat, and bilateral relations with the USA.

Sexual Violence at University: Are Varsity Athletes More at Risk?

Some studies report that the sport context increases the risk of exposure to sexual violence for athletes. In contrast, others indicate a protective effect of sport participation against sexual violence, particularly among varsity athletes. Studies of sexual violence towards varsity athletes are limited by their failure to include control groups and various known risk factors such as age, graduate level, gender and sexual identity, disability status, international and Indigenous student status, and childhood sexual abuse. The purpose of the present study is to fill in these gaps to determine whether varsity athletes are at greater risk than non-athletes of sexual violence towards them or whether, on the contrary, involvement in a varsity sport is coherent with the Sport Protection Hypothesis. Data for this article come from the ESSIMU study (Enquête sur la Sexualité, la Sécurité et les Interactions en Milieu Universitaire), a broad survey of students, professors, and other employees at six francophone universities regarding sexual violence on university campuses. A total of 6,485 students with complete data on sexual violence, athlete status, and gender were included in the study. From this total, 267 participants identified themselves as varsity athletes. Data were analyzed using a series of logistic regressions on each form of violence using athlete status as a predictor and characteristics associated with sexual violence victimization or distinguishing between varsity athletes and non-athletes as confounding variables. When considering all confounding variables in the regression analyses on four yearly incidence rates of sexual violence, the results revealed that being a varsity athlete did not significantly increase the risk of exposure to sexual violence at university. All considered other variables were more significant predictors of the past year’s risk of sexual violence victimization than athlete status was.

Research on the Mining of Intangible Cultural Heritage Digital Resources in the Manual Online Teaching System of Preschool Education.

Our country's international status as a cultural power has been further enhanced, and the protection of intangible cultural heritage containing the essence of traditional culture is also gradually being carried out. In addition, with the rapid development of the digital environment, the public's cultural needs continue to grow, and the contradiction between the supply and demand of public digital cultural services continues to intensify. Converting intangible cultural heritage into digital form for protection and providing resource services for the public has become an important trend in the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage at home and abroad, and it is also an inevitable requirement to solve the contradiction between supply and demand. Improving public cultural services is one of the key projects. At present, our country's research and practice of intangible cultural heritage digitization and services are also in progress, but there is no research on intangible cultural heritage digital resource services and system construction from the perspective of information service elements. Based on the digital resource service of intangible cultural heritage, the manual course is one of the main skill courses for preschool education majors. At this stage, the short class hours of manual courses, the lack of class hours, the low utilization rate of teaching materials, and the disconnection between the content and the needs of the kindergarten are all problems that need to be solved at present. Just relying on cross-references between schools, the manual knowledge and skills mastered by graduates are not comprehensive enough to complete the manual tasks assigned by the kindergarten. This paper implements the concept of intangible cultural heritage and hopes that by studying the manual knowledge and skills that today's kindergarten teachers need to possess, the content of existing manual courses can be adjusted in a targeted manner, so that the electronic culture dissemination of manual curriculum resources for preschool education is more reasonable, meeting the requirements of kindergarten teachers in terms of manual knowledge and skills.

Scientific-Practical Conference “Historical Heritage and Cross-Cultural Contacts on the Great Silk Road”

A report on the scientific and practical conference held on November 1–2, 2021 in Novosibirsk State University is presented. The conference has an international status, because of 23 foreign participants from 5 countries. A wide range of topical issues related to history, archaeology, economy and culture of China, to studying and teaching Chinese etc. was discussed at the conference. And among the speakers on the plenary was presented online our special guest Daniel Waugh, Professor Emeritus of the Washington State University.

Consumer Preference for Nutritionally Fortified Eggs and Impact of Health Benefit Information.

The potential contribution of nutritionally fortified foods to the improvement of public health has been recognized internationally; however, the extent of people’s preferences for functional foods and the influence of information intervention on consumers’ acceptance and selection of nutritious foods have not been comprehensively studied in China. The main purposes of this study are to assess Chinese consumers’ perceptions towards nutritionally fortified eggs and to explore the ways in which information about the health benefits and the international market status quo of functional eggs impacts Chinese consumers’ preferences and their willingness to pay (WTP) for nutritional fortification. Discrete choice experiments were used to elicit the preferences of 740 egg consumers from four cities in China, and a mixed logit model subsequently utilized to interpret the results. It was found that the provision of comprehensive information regarding the health benefits of trace elements and unsaturated fatty acids, as well as insight into the current market status quo, significantly improved participants’ preferences and their WTP for functional eggs. Furthermore, the heterogeneous effects of demographic and sociocultural factors on consumers’ treatment of this information were explored. It was found that the study participants with children and those with prior purchase experience exhibited a relatively stronger response to the information, while those who had expressed trust in the human health benefits of the nutritional content of functional eggs were not as sensitive as expected to the additional information. Therefore, if the government and enterprises design appropriate information treatment and nudging methods according to the current consumption characteristics of nutritionally fortified eggs, this will help to improve consumers’ purchase confidence in the health efficacy of functional food and play a positive role in promoting people’s healthy food consumption.

China's pursuit of international status through negotiated deference: an empirical analysis of Italy's parliamentary attitude

AbstractItaly's controversial decision to sign a Memorandum of Understanding for collaboration on the Belt and Road Initiative with China in 2019 has been widely debated. This article seeks to break new ground by offering a theory-informed contribution investigating the rationale behind Beijing's own commitment in the negotiations leading to the signing of the BRI MoU. It argues that the Chinese government accepted the risks involved in the process for the sake of promoting an accelerated advancement in China's positioning in the international status hierarchy through negotiation of deference against agency with Italy. The article empirically probes the extent to which such a strategy of status enhancement on China's part is sustainable over time. Based on a content analysis of all China-related political stances expressed in ordinary non-legislative policy-setting acts tabled in both Houses of the 18th Italian Parliament, from March 2018 through to August 2021, the article suggests that China's strategy is hardly sustainable. In fact, the steady deterioration of China-related sentiment among Italian Members of Parliament as a consequence of Beijing's policies towards Hong Kong, the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) outbreak, and Xinjiang matches the expectations of previous scholarship on international status as it confirms that social closure mechanisms discussed in the literature prevail over foreign policy consistency when the status-seeking actor is perceived as crossing critical normative thresholds.

Emotions and narratives of the spirit of Gallipoli: Turkey’s collective identity and status in international relations

ABSTRACT This article examines Turkish narratives of the Gallipoli Campaign fought during the First World War, based on newspaper archival research covering the last 50 years. It argues that the memorialization of the Gallipoli Campaign reflects collective emotions underpinning Turkish national identity and self-perceptions of ambivalence in international relations. Compared with the Sèvres Treaty, which is the most frequently cited episode of the First World War in the context of Turkish history, the Dardanelles Victory provides a more nuanced understanding of Turkish collective identity and international status. Fought primarily against the British and resulting in victory, the narratives reveal emotions related to humiliation and betrayal, as well as desires for validation vis-à-vis Europe. However, the spirit of Gallipoli also signifies the birth of collective consciousness, restoration of honour after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and compassion for the victimized soldiers of the opposing side. Thus, the different memorialization of the First World War, especially in contrast to Europe, sets Turkey’s status above the colonized nations while manifesting aspirations to place Turkey on an equal footing with the West. This duality in the narratives reproduces Turkey’s own understanding of its ambivalence and liminal status between the West and the East.