The Turkish government announced its 'Asia Anew Initiative' in 2019. It is evaluated as Turkey's proclamation of a new Grand Strategy and vision corresponding to the rapid changes in the geopolitical environment and political situation.
Detailed plans and measures are yet to be concretized; Still, Asia Anew Coordination Ambassador has been appointed, and three core organizations for Turkish public diplomacy (Turkish International Cooperation Agency, Yunus Emre Enstitüsü, and Republic of Türkiye Investment Office) are to take the wheel.
Considering the characteristics of the core organizations involved, the Asia Anew Initiative will not only cover the political/ economic aspect of Turkish diplomatic strategy but also embrace the Public Diplomacy elements to maximize Turkish national interest.
In this context, this paper aims to analyze the context and background that formulated the Asia Anew Initiative. Moreover, its significance to Turkish foreign policy designing and public diplomacy strategy will be provided. By examining the three core organizations that will lead this initiative, how Turkey utilizes them to conduct its public diplomacy and its implications will be presented. Then, the research will conclude with the overall implications for South Korea.

Islamism is an ideology that aims at the Islamization of society. Islamism was revived in the 1970s with its increasing popularity among the public across the Middle East. Initially, Islamists undertook philanthropic activities to help the urban poor and the educated middle class in areas not covered by governmental services, and appealed to the people with the motto of 'Islam is the way' to various political, economic, and social problems. Islamists expanded their political influence by utilizing civil society that mushroomed in the 1990s and sought the Islamization of society through their growing political power. However, it was not until the 2011 Arab Spring that the successful cases of Islamism could be distinguished from the failed ones. The public support of political Islam has declined significantly in most Middle Eastern countries, as the promised reform was not realized. Consequently, civil Islam has replaced political Islam. Instead of using Islam as political tool to gain political power, civil Islam emphasizes practicing Islam in everyday life to be a good Muslim and for the spiritual development of individual Muslims. Taking this background into consideration, this study examines how Islamism has worked in the Middle Eastern societies since the 1970s and has been able to gain public support by penetrating the lives of ordinary people. Additionally, it investigates the factors that determined the success or failure of Islamism after the 2011 Arab Spring, as well as the current trend of Islamism. In contrast to ahistorical and mechanical analyses that fix Islamism to a specific historical period, this study sheds light on diversity within Islamism. The diverse versions and trends within Islamism could be identified by differentiating political Islam from civil Islam.

Error analysis as a branch of applied linguistics studies errors in the process of language learning. This approach seeks the linguistic errors and describes the source of the linguistic errors. Regarding the growth of Persian language teaching as a second / foreign language, it seems necessary to pay attention to this field. Based on the error analysis approach and using field method, the present study investigates the syntactic errors of Korean-speaking learners of Persian at the elementary level in order to determine the educational needs of students, express their syntactic problems and find a way to solve them. To do so, 80 pieces of writing of 20 students were gathered and examined, then the errors are classified based on the corpus of syntactic errors with two sources of interlingual and intralingual, using the error analysis frameworks. The findings show that incorrect substitution, incorrect deletion, incorrect addition, and incorrect order were respectively the most frequent errors. Also, the results indicate that errors related to word order, verb tense and using preposition, which have an interlingual origin, are the most frequent errors and among syntactic errors with an intralingual origin, the verb-subject agreement error shows the most frequency.