TFPD: Turkish Foreign Policy Speeches and Press Statements

TFPD is a collection of three text corpora on Turkish foreign policy, totaling 1.7 MB. The dataset includes speeches by the President of Turkey, press statements from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and press releases from the National Security Council. Chiara Boldrini created this dataset, which was last updated on 2026-04-29.

Use Cases

• Analyzing rhetorical patterns in foreign policy based on presidential speeches.
• Tracking policy positions over time based on Ministry of Foreign Affairs press statements.
• Studying national security discourse based on National Security Council press releases.
• Applying text-as-data methods to political science research based on the described corpus.

Strengths

• Dataset is 1.7 MB in size, indicating a manageable scale for analysis.
• Includes three distinct text sources (presidential speeches, MFA statements, NSC releases) for multi-faceted analysis.
• License is CC-BY-4.0, permitting open sharing and adaptation.
• Associated R code is provided to reproduce descriptive analyses from the source article.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Chiara Boldrini via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely collected from official Turkish government sources.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 17:46:27; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Turkey