Governing Turkey's internet: Cyber security as a strategy of power

Abstract

This study investigates expansion of the field of cyber security in relation to governing of the Internet in Turkey within the last decade. It argues that security rationality is becoming the dominant diagrmn in evaluating problems and solutions associated with the Internet. It shows that cyber security is instrumental in expansion of forms of power associated with security objective through a discourse of risk and danger, institutional restructuring, law making, and most importantly, technical practices. Technical practices, for they have a indirect relation with the infrastructure of internet cmnmunications, represents a reflexive quality, which makes cyber security field eletnent of a distinct strategy of power, in the intersection of govermnent, technology and security.