Journal of Political Strategy

Turkey's foreign policy in the Syrian crisis

Volume 4, Issue 15 - Serial Number 15
Winter 2021
Pages 77-91
Journal of Political Strategy

Document Type : Original Independent Original Article

Author

mahdyeh heydari

PhD student in International Relations, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract
This article analyze Turkey's aggressive foreign policy in the face of the Syrian crisis with an explanatory method and from the perspective of defensive realism. Therefore, the main question of the research is, why Turkey's foreign policy in the Syrian crisis is aggressive? The temporary answer is that Turkey, by perceiving the threat of extremists spilling over into its internal borders, threatening the autonomy of the Syrian Kurds, as well as Turkey's long-term geopolitical prospects, has led its aggressive foreign policy in the Syrian crisis. The findings of the study indicate that as the crisis intensifies near the Turkish border, Turkish decision-makers have increased the level of military violence in the Syrian crisis. In other words, there is a positive correlation between the extent to which Turkey receives a threat from the Syrian crisis, and the degree to which its foreign policy is becoming more aggressive. The method of data collection in this research is based on the library method which includes the simultaneous use of domestic and foreign scientific articles.

Keywords

Turkey
Syrian crisis
Defensive realism
Foreign policy
state
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