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This article aims to look forward to finding an answer whether Turkish foreign policy is based on pursuit of national interests, national identity, state identity, economy, stability, peace or not. This article finds out the factors behind the foreign policy such as: international, domestic, cultural, and social changes. This study also analyzes the misunderstood Turkish foreign policy towards the Balkan countries, which is claimed that Turkey tries to create a "pact-Ottoman or a neo-Ottoman" foreign policy in the Balkan countries. Objective: to analyze the Turkish early foreign policy and its emergence towards the Balkan countries. Methods: historical method, analytic observation, and generalization. Results: Foreign policy is very vital in our time than in the past. Every obstacle can be overcome by proper foreign policy conduction. It has been claimed that as a result globalization threat, foreign policy began facing challenges of constantly redefining its spaces of accountability. Since Turkey is one of the Balkan countries, it gives great attention to its bilateral relations with the Balkan countries and preserves good relations with all the Balkan countries and Turkey has the belief that it only can get its own security and stability through the security and stability of the Balkan regions. It is claimed that the Balkan states is not easy for the Turkish foreign policy and there are challenges obstacles, which should be carefully dealt. The obstacles are claimed long-lasting problems among and within the Balkan countries, and they are major challenges towards the Turkish foreign policy in the Balkan regions. Scientific novelty: The Turkish foreign policy towards the Balkan countries is not new. It has a long history. The Turkey's new activism in its neighborhood and elsewhere as a product of Turkey's own determination of its role as a regional power, one derived from its own perceptions, history, and political struggles. Firstly, Turkey is redefining its identity and place, in its own neighborhood, and since Turkey is acting as a regional power, it is gaining self-confidence. This article studies the expansive aims of the Turkish foreign policy towards the Balkans and its perspectives and achieved goals until now. Practical significance: The results and the conclusions of this article can be used further by those who study Turkish modern history, international relations and political science, with a special interest in the so called Turkish strategy of a new approach and expected impact toward the Balkan countries.

This revised and updated version of William Hale's Turkish Foreign Policy 1774-2000 offers a comprehensive and analytical survey of Turkish foreign policy since the last quarter of the eighteenth century, when the Turks' relations with the rest of the world entered their most critical phase.In recent years Turkey's international role has changed and expanded dramatically, and the new edition revisits the chapters and topics covered in light of these changes. Drawing on newly available information and ideas, the author carefully alters the earlier historical narrative while p.

1. Foreign relations of the late Ottoman Empire, 1774-1918 -- 2. Resistance, reconstruction and diplomacy, 1918-39 -- 3. Turkey and the Second World War, 1939-45 -- 4. Turkey and the Cold War, 1945-63 : the engagement phase -- 5. Turkey and the Cold War, 1964-90 : global shifts and regional conflicts -- 6. Turkish foreign policy after the Cold War : strategic options and the domestic and economic environments -- 7. Turkey and the west after the Cold War I : Turkey and the United States -- 8. Turkey and the west after the Cold War II : Turkey and the European Union -- 9. Turkey and regional politics after the Cold War I : Greece, Cyprus and the Balkans -- 10. Turkey and regional politics after the Cold War II : Russia, the Black Sea, Transcaucasia and central Asia -- 11. Turkey and regional politics after the Cold War III : the Middle East and the wider world -- 12. Conclusions and prospects.

Impact of Turkey's abundant water supplies on domestic and foreign affairs; interviews with ten Turkish officials. Possible influence of Turkish water management projects on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

This article examines to what extent Turkey's foreign policy identity has transformed from being a 'hard power' to a 'soft power' over the last few years. In doing so, this article also contends that there is a close relationship between the degree of securitisation of issues & whether the power used to deal with them is hard or soft in nature. If issues of concern were securitised, the tendency to use hard power would increase. Another argument is that the main difference between these two types of power stems from the kind of 'logic of action' that governs the behaviour of agents. If an instrumental logic of action were in play, meaning if the goal were to force others to make a cost-benefit analysis through coercing or coaxing strategies, then one could talk about hard power. If the goal were to ensure that others would automatically follow the lead of the power-holder due to the power of attraction the latter has in the eyes of the former, then one could refer to the existence of soft power. The main conclusion of this article is that recent internal & external developments have contributed to Turkey's soft power potential. References. Adapted from the source document.

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Assesses foreign relations of the Islamist Welfare party leader, who became prime minister in June 1996; suggests that he is a potential US ally and that ideological cohabitation is possible. Discusses relations with Israel, Operation Provide Comfort II in Kurdish-controlled Iraq, the Cyprus question, and a customs union with the European Union.