Turkey-Iran Relations in JDP Era from the Beginning to the 15th July Coup Attempt


Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is a party which remains the longest-running without coalition that dominated the Turkish political life and Turkey's domestic and foreign policy at the beginning of the 21st Century. Thus the foreign policy followed between the years 2002-2015 is to be examined in terms of its own in this regard both from the aspect of Turkey’s close vicinity and Turkish political history. One of the most important case countries is Iran which is Turkey’s biggest neighbor in terms of population and land area and which has been in competition, cooperation and conflict relations in historical sense with Turkey regarding the examined period. Iran has a quite different place standing upon reasons such as being home to one of the largest Turkish speaking population, being the region’s most important one of the energy giants besides its ideological and geopolitical position etc. Within this work, the relations of Turkey with Iran has been analyzed through strategic, economic and geopolitical perspectives in those 13 years of period when the AK Party was ruling alone in parliamentary regime. Many issues have been mentioned such as the perception of the political tradition of the AK Party towards Iran, the general circumstances of the bilateral relations in the beginning of the period, Syrian civil war and nuclear deal crisis dimensions within the work. It is indicated that Turkey has provided critical supports to Iran during the 2009 Elections Crisis in Iran and West-Iran nuclear tension. And that’s been found that two neighbor countries have been in a risky competition indirectly in Syria and Iraq until the failed 15th July coup attempt despite the general pursuit of the direct bilateral relations.


Keywords


Turkish foreign policy, AK Party era, Turkey-Iran Relations, Nuclear Deal, 15th July

Author : Yalçın SARIKAYA
Number of pages: 1423-1443
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.37421
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Turkish Studies-Social Sciences
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