Dear Readers,
We are happy to present you the 104th issue of bilig. Hereby, we celebrate your new year and wish that 2023, when we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, will bring peace and prosperity to our country and the whole world.
Author diversity is one of the important criteria that reflects quality in academic publications. As bilig, we care about including academicians from various universities in the editorial board and the referee pool. Another thing that we pay attention to is publishing articles of authors from different universities and countries. That diversity can be easily realized upon examining this issue.
As the editorial board, attracting and publishing high-quality articles from all around the world is our consistent priority. The increasing importance of the Turkic world as a geopolitical and cultural subsystem has also increased the academic interest and studies on
the Turkic world. The flow of articles to bilig can readily illustrate this. We continue our way in line with the ideal of being a genuine field studies journal that comes to mind first when it is the history, culture, literature, economics, sociology and international relations of the Turkic world. We hope that our increasing publication quality will evidently reflect on our impact factor in the coming years.
There is a fierce competition among the journals in the SSCI in terms of increasing the impact factor. On the other hand, a strong solidarity exists between academic journals published by the major publishers. As bilig, we aim to increase our cooperation in sharing
experience on publishing processes with social science journals – especially those in the Web of science and Scopus list – that focus on Eurasian geography.
The success of bilig, which Ahmet Yesevi University Board of Trustees cossets as the apple of their eye and their pride, and proudly presents as carte de visite of the university, will also strengthen the authority of the Turkic world in social sciences. With this belief, we work hard without making concessions from quality. We would like to express our gratitude to all our scholars and colleagues sharing our ideals, excitement, concerns and hopes, and wish you a good read.
Prof. Dr. Fırat PURTAŞ
Editor in Chief