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Military Ethics Education: West Point and Turkish Military Academy

Askerî Etik Eğitimi: West Point ve Kara Harp Okulu

Gizem Nur Demirel(MİLLİ SAVUNMA ÜNİVERSİTESİ ATATÜRK STRATEJİK ARAŞTIRMALAR VE LİSANSÜSTÜ EĞİTİM ENSTİTÜSÜ ASKERİ SOSYOLOJİ)0000-0001-8129-9574
Pages
497–527
Publication Date
2025-12-19
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Findings indicate that systematic ethics education fosters officers’ character development and cultivates a shared professional understanding by enabling them to internalize the mission, values, and regulations of the military profession.

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Objective & Hypothesis:In Türkiye, scholarly work on ethics has tended to emphasize international relations, climate, and technology, while military ethics—distinct from the ethics of war—remains underexamined.
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Key Findings & Data:This study defines military ethics as a professional normative framework that integrates character, judgment, and institutional values, and examines how it is taught to military officers.
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⚙️Variables:Etik · Askerî Etik · Askerî Etik Eğitimi

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In Türkiye, scholarly work on ethics has tended to emphasize international relations, climate, and technology, while military ethics—distinct from the ethics of war—remains underexamined. This study defines military ethics as a professional normative framework that integrates character, judgment, and institutional values, and examines how it is taught to military officers. Using a qualitative case-study design, it analyzes the structure and delivery of ethics education at the precommissioning level at both the United States Military Academy at West Point and the Türkiye’s Military Academy-Harbiye. It also analyzes NATO’s Generic Officer Professional Military Education Reference Curricula to assess when, where, and how ethical formation is embedded across the learning continuum. Findings indicate that systematic ethics education fosters officers’ character development and cultivates a shared professional understanding by enabling them to internalize the mission, values, and regulations of the military profession.

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Türkiye'de etik üzerine yapılan akademik çalışmalar büyük oranda uluslararası ilişkiler, iklim ve teknolojiye odaklanmıştır. Askerî alanda etik araştırmalarının ihmal edildiği, var olan birkaç araştırmanın da genellikle savaş etiğine odaklandığı ve askerî etik eğitimi konusunun derinlemesine incelenmediği görülmektedir. Bu kapsamda çalışmada nitel bir vaka çalışması tasarımı kullanılarak, askerî etik kavramı tanımlanmakta, askerî etik eğitiminin Harp Okulu düzeyinde nasıl planlandığını West Point ve Kara Harp Okulu örneği ile; mesleki yaşam boyunca nasıl olması gerektiğini ise NATO “Kapsamlı Subay Profesyonel Askerî Eğitim Referans Müfredatı” belgesi ile incelenmektedir. Bulgular, sistematik etik eğitiminin subayların karakter gelişimini desteklediğini ve askerlik mesleğinin misyonunu, değerlerini ve düzenlemelerini içselleştirmelerini sağlayarak ortak bir profesyonel anlayış geliştirdiğini göstermektedir.

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Demirel, G. N., *, G. N. D. (2025). Military Ethics Education: West Point and Turkish Military Academy. Güvenlik Stratejileri Dergisi, Cilt: 21 Sayı: 52, 497–527. https://doi.org/10.17752/guvenlikstrtj.1708636

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