title: 2019’DA UKRAYNA ORTODOKS KİLİSESİNİN KURULMASININ TARİHSEL SÜRECİ: KİLİSE, DEVLET VE DEVLET-İNŞASI
abstract: This dissertation examines the Ukrainian presidents’ endeavors to create an autocephalous Orthodox church in Ukraine and tries to understand how this Church was successfully established in 2019, while previous attempts failed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Also, it discusses the significance of the Church in post-Soviet Ukraine state-building process. To this end, semi-structured elite and expert interviews in Kyiv (Ukraine) in 2019 and 2020 and Ankara (Turkey) in 2022 an
journal: OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University)