Normative Power Turkey? Assesing Turkish Foreign Policy Towards The Syrian Civil War

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2023-9-21

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Şimşek, Eray

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In this thesis, I aim to assess the normative dimension of Turkish foreign policy toward the Syrian Civil War, between the years 2011 and 2016, when Ahmet Davutoğlu resigned from his position. Turkey’s involvement with the Syrian Civil War, and her enthusiastic support for the Syrian opposition cannot be understood without reference to her normative goals in Syria and the Middle East. Syria had been the most successful product of Turkey’s “zero problem with neighbors” policy until the eruption of the civil war. This thesis will aim to identify foreign policy traditions in Turkey, and hypothesize that increasing idealism and activism in Turkish foreign policy during the early 2010s can be attributed to the empowerment of a specific foreign policy tradition, namely an Islamic brand of idealism, commonly referred to as neo-Ottomanism. The thesis will trace the change of mood among Turkish policy makers toward Syria and investigate the normative elements in Turkey’s approach toward the Syrian civil war. The thesis will conclude by assessing the degree of normativity in TFP, using the framework offered by Natalie Tocci.

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Turkish foreign policy, normativism, Syria

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105320

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis