Evolution of Turkish foreign policy from ataturk to gul (1924-2009)‎

Abstract EN

This study aims to analyze the Turkish foreign policy from numerous perspectives and to clarify the different regional, historical and ideological factors affecting this policy.

It will exhibit different opinions regarding which of them is of greater effect, and which is a more direct motive for Turkey's actions and responses to different world events, whether its ideology or pragmatics.

Through this analysis, the integration of these factors together to shape the structure of Turkey's foreign policy as a whole should be noticed.

This study also discusses Turkey's stance towards different regional and is international events, the treaties and agreements it signed, and the conflicts it had or still having with neighbors, allies and other countries around the world.

This analysis will consider the period extending from the end of the Ottoman Empire through Kamel Ataturk , Turgut Ozal, the AKP (Adalet ve Kalkmma Partisi) or the Justice and Development Party, also called White Party, to Abdulla Gul and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, analyzing the foreign policy of the Turkish Government during their different reigns ending with the latest event of the European gas pipeline deal.