Justice and development part government's foreign policy during the Iraqı crisis in 2003

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The objective of this thesis is to analyze the foreign policy of the Justice and Development Party government during the Iraqi Crisis in 2003. In this context, the aim is to find out the answers to the questions of أhow did the JDP government react to the Iraqi Crisis in 2003 and what were the driving forces pushing the government to act in such a way, how did the JDP government̕s policies evolved Turkey̕s relations with the US and the EU, did the JDP government try to evolve the traditional foreign policy orientations of the Turkish Republic?ؤ Accordingly the thesis contains four main parts. In the first part of the study, the categorization in the international system in geostrategic and geopolitical terms and general tendencies in Turkish foreign policy are studied. In the second part of the study, the political identity of the JDP and the reasons of categorizing the JDP as a centre-right party are discussed. In the third part, the general attitude of the JDP government in some foreign policy issues and the assumptions of Prof. Dr. Ahmet Davutoğlu -the Chief Advisor to the Foreign Minister in foreign policy- are scrutinized. In the forth part, Turkey̕s relations with the US and the EU during the Iraqi Crisis in 2003 is discussed. Accordingly, this thesis has reached to the following conclusions: First, the JDP has acted in conformity with the traditional concepts of Turkish foreign policy to a major extent, the concerns shaping the Turkish foreign policy toward Iraq since the first Gulf War of 1990-1991 continued to determine the calculations of Turkish actors during the Iraqi Crisis of 2003. Second, the JDP government pursued a two-pronged, dual policy to meet the demands and expectancies of the US, the EU, the Muslim countries and international and internal public opinion.

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Ö. Kaplan, “Justice and development part government’s foreign policy during the Iraqı crisis in 2003,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2005.