THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION IN TURKISH FOREIGN-POLICY FROM THE 1950S TO THE 1990S

1993-02-01
AYKAN, MB
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Since the 1950s Turkish foreign policy toward the Middle East has centered on the question of support for the Arab position on the Palestinian question. Ever since the U.N. General Assembly resolution of November 1947 that partitioned Palestine between the Palestinians and Israelis, all the Arab countries—even though diversity of regime has prevented them from otherwise acting as a unit in Middle Eastern politics—have consistently supported the establishment of an independent Palestinian state (in opposition to the Israelis and the United States) as a condition for stability in the Middle East. In November 1973, the heads of the Arab states declared the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)—created in 1964 through the initiative of the Arab League—to be the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and they have supported its efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip ever since.
Geography, Planning and Development, Sociology and Political Science, History
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/63482
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
Department of International Relations, Article

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M. AYKAN, “THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION IN TURKISH FOREIGN-POLICY FROM THE 1950S TO THE 1990S,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, pp. 91–110, 1993, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/63482.
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