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Dear Journal of Gazi Academic View Readers,

At a time when Turkey is slowly healing the wounds of the twin earthquakes, we are here with you, presenting the thirty-second issue of our journal. We extend our condolences and prayers for those who lost their lives and wish a speedy recovery to those injured in the disaster that caused great destruction in 11 provinces in the southeast of our country. May Allah bless them and grant patience to their loved ones.

In this issue, there are eighteen valuable articles by twenty-two authors. Each of them has been meticulously reviewed by our esteemed referees through blind peer-reviewing and has been included in this journal issue
after the final decision of our editorial board. There are fifteen Turkish and three English articles. Fourteen of the articles focus on history, three on International Relations, and one on Political Science.

In the first article of this issue, Nejla GÜNAY problematizes the impact of the pre-World War I alliance between England and Russia on Armenian reforms and Kurdish-Armenian relations. In our second article, Yavuz Selim ÇELOĞLU discusses the Reserve Cavalry regiments that operated on the Caucasian Front during World War I. The third article, by Kamuran KARABALIK, focuses on the origins of the Nestorian issue in the Hakkâri Sanjak and the Nestorian incidents during World War I. In the fourth article, Volkan AKSOY has written on the reactions of the Ottoman subjects in Trabzon to the uprisings that started among the Catholic people in Albania in 1911. The fifth article, by Ahmet ELİBOL, takes a critical look at the Ottoman Decline Paradigm. In the sixth article, Filiz TAPAN presents the discussions about the origins of the Malkoçoğlu family, one of the frontier families in Rumelia, and also introduces a new claim on the subject. The seventh article, by Gökhan YURTOĞLU, focuses on İskender Pasha, who served as the Bosnia sanjak bey for many years in the 15th century. In the eighth article, Serap TAŞTEKİN examines the illicit salt trade between Sicily and the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century. The ninth article, by Taner LÜLECİ, discusses through an investigation of the parliamentary minutes and newspapers of the period, the presidential elections in which İsmet İnönü participated. In the tenth article, Halil ÖZCAN analyzes the story of King Zog of Albania seeking refuge in Turkey during the Interwar period through the Turkish press. In the eleventh article, Mürsel DOĞRUL and Murat ÇEMREK discuss the historical development of the discipline of International Relations in Japan from the Meiji era to the present. In the twelfth article, Ramazan SONAT focuses on the journey of Haroshiya Hirayama, a Japanese captain, from Istanbul to Basra in late 1906. In the thirteenth article, Firdes TEMİZGÜNEY examines the Russian espionage activities conducted in eastern Turkey during the Cold War years, using the example of Erzurum. In the fourteenth article, Arda ÖZKAN and Gülşah TAŞÇI discuss the security needs of international students through the securitization theory in the field of International Relations studies. In the fifteenth article, Emrah KAYA discusses the relationship between the maturity level of conflicts and the success of negotiation methods through the theory of maturity. In the sixteenth article, Bülent ŞENER examines the emergence of the nation-state phenomenon in the international system and the significance and relationship of the concepts of “sovereignty,” “nationality,” and “border” in the distinctiveness of the state’s “internal” and “external” topology. In the seventeenth and final article, Ramazan ALTINAY and Esra ÇEÇEN discuss the diplomatic relations conducted by the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum during the reign of Kilij Arslan I. In the eighteenth and final article, Akın BİNGÖL and Dilek KARAGEÇİ have written on Urartian arrowheads in the Kars Museum.

Readers of the Journal of Gazi Academic View, we hope that you will read mthe articles in our 32nd issue with great interest. We would like to thank the authors, the reviewers, and the editorial board for their contributions to this issue. We hope to meet you again in our next issue.

Sincerely
Edıtor