Turkey's Iraq Policy The War and Beyond

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2006-01-01

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Altunışık, Meliha

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Turkey's Iraq policy has come under scrutiny since the Turkish parliament defeated a motion that called for Turkey's involvement in the war against Iraq in 2003. This study argues that rationalist perspectives cannot completely account either for Turkey's non-cooperation with the USA in this war or for the articulation and implementation of Iraq policy since then. A comprehensive account of Turkey's Iraq policy requires a discussion of the impact of identity politics and historical narratives on perceptions of interests.

Subject Keywords

Turkey and Iraq, Iraq War of 2003, Turkey and the Middle East, March 1st Motion, Turkey and the US, Kurdish conflict

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/79289
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14782800600892242?needAccess=true

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Journal of Contemporarary European Studies

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Department of International Relations, Article

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M. Altunışık, “Turkey’s Iraq Policy The War and Beyond,” Journal of Contemporarary European Studies, pp. 183–196, 2006, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/79289.