Issue 86 · Summer 2018

Dear Readers,

Here is bilig’s 86th issue. In this issue, we tried to shed light on the Turkish cultural heritage with 9 articles in the fields of literature, folklore, philosophy and international relations and tried to call attention to the current problems of the Turkic world.

As of this issue, we have begun to reduce the number of the articles we publish even to a small amount. Our ambition is to publish more qualified articles with higher impact factors instead of more articles. Therefore, we aim to further strengthen the position of bilig in the indexes. This approach will further extend the period of publication of the articles that have completed the peer review process and are entitled to publication. We ask our article authors to be tolerant on this matter.

The flow of an article to bilig is also going up in parallel with increasing competition and constantly rising criteria in academic life. All these facts make the responsibility on our editorial board even harder. The fixed priority of our editorial board is to raise the level of bilig and its impact factor.

Bilig has a significant accumulation in the field of scientific publishing. This accumulation is the contribution of the editorial board consisting of expert academicians who closely follow the international scientific journal management processes, besides 86 issues published continuously since 1996. Objectivity, transparency and independence in the process of the editorial board are the most important assurance for the continuation of bilig’s success.

Undoubtedly, the most productive and most valuable members of the bilig family are our authors. As well as their contribution to universal science and with their contribution to the efforts of the Turkic world to integrate, our academicians are giving the greatest support to our efforts to raise bilig's international prestige and recognition with their pioneering and original, innovative and qualified articles.

We wish healthy and successful days to all our authors and readers and hope that the 86th. issue of our magazine will be useful.

Prof. Dr. Fırat PURTAŞ

Editor in Chief