Turkey’s Middle East Policy under the JDP Rule

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Yeşilyurt N., Akdevelioğlu A.

The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, cilt.41, ss.39-69, 2010 (Hakemli Dergi)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 41
  • Basım Tarihi: 2010
  • Dergi Adı: The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Other Indexes
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.39-69
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This article tries to shed light on the root causes of Turkey’s activism in the Middle East during the rule of the Justice and Development Party (JDP). By focusing on Turkey’s relations with Syria, Iraq, Iran and Israel along with the US foreign policy towards the region, it argues that the transformation of the US Middle East policy is a very important factor that affected Turkey’s Middle East policy in the JDP era. Besides, it asserts that recent debates regarding “Turkey’s soft power” in the region remind of “Turkey as a model country” discourse since both of them conceives Turkey as a facilitator in the articulation of the Middle East to the global system.