Business as Usual: The U.S.‐Turkey Security Partnership

Kibaroğlu, Mustafa; Sazak, Selim Can

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“…According to the Turkish government, the fact that the PYD fights against ISIS cannot overshadow the reality of the PYD's being a terrorist group, which committed “a wave of forced displacement and home demolitions amounting to war crimes,” as mentioned by a recent Amnesty International Report (2015). One could argue that the PYD conducts ethnic cleansing against Sunni Arabs and Turkmens in northern Syria to create a de facto Kurdish enclave in the region (Kibaroglu & Sazak, :100), which makes the Turkish government uncomfortable on the issue of cooperation with the PYD against ISIS. In 2015, Turkey's reluctance to support Kurdish forces in their struggle against ISIS in Kobane, a Kurdish village in Syria, contributed to mounting tensions between the Kurds and Ankara, as well as between Turkey and the United States.…”

Section: Syrian Civil War's Impact On Turkish Foreign Policymentioning

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Examining the Impact of Turkey's Approach Vis‐à‐Vis Syria into Turkey's Iraq Policy

Harunoğlu

2017

Digest Mid East Studies

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The tension between "international order" and justice has long been a focus of critical attention of many scholars. Today, with the rise of the humanitarian crises, the debate is once again visible, and Turkish foreign policy is one of the most important areas of observation of this tension. Indeed, the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 paved the way for Turkey to actively engage in regional affairs. Meanwhile, the need to bring human justice into world politics makes Turkish foreign policy decision makers operate on a much more humanitarian basis. Nevertheless, active humanitarian engagement poses an important challenge to traditional Turkish foreign policy as it is mainly based on the notion of "non-interference," as well as on the elementary components of international order, by raising suspicions on the intentions of the Turkish authorities. This article aims to explore the challenges Turkey has been facing since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and diagnose Turkish foreign policy vis-à-vis Iraq in the shadow of the Syrian civil war from Hedley Bull's framework of "order" and "justice." It argues that Turkey's recent fluctuations in the Middle East could be linked to Turkey's failure to reconcile the requirements of "order" with those of "justice" and the Turkish governing party's (AKP) attempts to use justice as an important instrument to consolidate its power both in Turkey and in the Middle East.Examinando el impacto del acercamiento de Turquía en cara a Siria dentro de la política turca relacionada con Irak Resumen La tensi on entre el "orden internacional" y la justicia ha atraído hace mucho la atenci on crítica de muchos acad emicos. Hoy, con el incremento de la crisis humanitaria, el debate es de nuevo visible, y la política exterior turca es una de las areas m as importantes de observaci on en esta tensi on. Ciertamente, la invasi on en

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Examining the Impact of Turkey's Approach Vis‐à‐Vis Syria into Turkey's Iraq Policy

Harunoğlu

2017

Digest Mid East Studies

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The Security Aspect of Turkey-United States Relations: In Search for a New Model

Александровна¹

2016

Vestnik MGIMO-universiteta

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Security cooperation has always been an important aspect of the relations between Turkey and the USA. In Cold War era Turkish-American interaction within NATO played a crucial role in this cooperation. After that period the two countries began to search for a new model of their relations. Both Turkey and the USA started to use cooperation within NATO for the purpose of strengthening their global positions. At the same time the USA aspiration to use military bases in Turkey beyond NATO obligations frequently becomes a source of disagreement and crises in the relations of the two countries as it happened during the American intervention to Iraq in 2003. At present new challenges for regional security, especially in the Middle East, demands new forms of interaction between Turkey and the USA. The beginning of "the Arab spring" was met in Ankara and Washington with overlapping interest in changing conservative regimes and promoting "Turkish model". At the same time such questions as participation of Turkey in the fight against ISIL and the USA military cooperation with the Syrian Kurds, whom Ankara considers to be connected with the PKK terrorist organization, has brought serious contradictions between the two countries. The cause of these contradiction is the difference in the perception of threats in Turkey and in the Western countries. While the search for new forms of security cooperation meets with difficulties, NATO remains important for the relations between Turkey and the USA, despite traditionally high level of anti-NATO moods in the Turkish society.

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Business as Usual: The U.S.‐Turkey Security Partnership

Cited by 2 publications

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Examining the Impact of Turkey's Approach Vis‐à‐Vis Syria into Turkey's Iraq Policy

Examining the Impact of Turkey's Approach Vis‐à‐Vis Syria into Turkey's Iraq Policy

The Security Aspect of Turkey-United States Relations: In Search for a New Model

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