The compliant ally? Turkey and the west in the middle east 1954–58

Sever, Ayşegül

doi:10.1080/00263209808701223

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“…Turkish–US relations remained generally stable for the next decades, with Turkey playing an indispensable role for the United States in the broader area of the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. Yet, despite their alliance, divergences in the Turkey–US relationship appeared early on (Buhari Gulmez, 2020; Sever, 1998, p. 478) and the two partners had to manage a few bilateral crises along the way. The first came as early as 1962 against the background of the Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and the USSR (Bernstein, 1980) which led American President Kennedy “to give in to Russian demands that the [Jupiter] missiles based in Turkey should be withdrawn in exchange for the USSR not basing missiles in Cuba” (Zücher, 2004, pp.…”

Section: Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkish–us Relations Since The Co...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reckoning with ‘new’ Turkey: Modes of US reaction to unwanted policy shifts in the Middle East

Kontos,

Tziarras

2023

Digest Mid East Studies

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This article discusses the changing relations between the United States and Turkey in light of Turkey's contemporary foreign policy that often challenges American interests. More specifically, it adopts a comparative approach to examine the variables that determine the course of US reaction when unwanted policy shifts take place in the Middle East. To this end, apart from Turkey, the article examines two more cases: US relations with Egypt in the 1950s, and with Iran right before, during and after the 1979 revolution. The comparative analysis reveals that the case of contemporary Turkey has been more similar to the historical case of Egypt, which explains why Washington has been adopting (and is more likely to continue doing so) a “wait‐and‐see” approach vis‐à‐vis Ankara. However, domestic changes in Turkey, though not as abrupt and radical as in Iran, remain significant and may have a deeper impact on US–Turkish relations in the future.

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Section: Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkish–us Relations Since The Co...mentioning

confidence: 99%