Makaleler | Journal Articles

THE REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, VOLUME 3, NO. 2, 2003. Mustafa AYDIN Although not one of the great powers of the twentieth century, its geopolitic allocation has enabled Turkey to play a potentially higher role in world politics than otherwise would have been possible. It not only holds the key to…

MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, VOLUME 36, NO. 1, 2000 Mustafa AYDIN I looked elsewhere at the structural determinants of Turkish foreign policy, which included the factors that have traditionally influenced and shaped the foreign policy of Turkey from imperial times, through the inter-war years with Atatürk, to the present-day Republic. Thanks…

THE TURKISH YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, XXVII, 1997 Mustafa AYDIN  On 25 December 1995, a Turkish coaster named Figen Akat run aground on one of the hitherto unnoticed rocks in the Aegean, 3.8 nautical miles off the Turkish coasL. Later that day, the carrier, after refusing the rescue offer from…

THE TURKISH YEARBOOK, VOL. XXVI, 1996 The polilical tremors experienced in international relations since 1989 significantly altered political geography of Eurasia, sweeping away at the same time the international system that had been built up over many years and certainties that many people believed to be inviolate. Within less than seven years since the…