What is it about?
This paper studies Turkey's strategic interest in the Syrian conflict in response to the ‘Arab spring’. It examines the impact of the Syrian crisis on Turkish foreign policy at the regional level, including the impact of Turkey's leadership, ‘Erdoğanism’, during the Arab spring, and the simultaneous shift from an ‘idealist policy’ of ‘zero problems’ in response to the outbreak of changes.
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Why is it important?
Turkey's ‘strategic depth’ and its idealistic ‘zero problems’ policy shifted with the outbreak of the Arab spring and the Syrian crisis, in particular, which posed a number of challenges both domestically and regionally. Domestic politics, history and leadership have played a significant role in shifting the tactics and techniques of Turkey's foreign policy in terms of the Syrian crisis.
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Dr Ibrahim Natil is currently a fellow at Institute for Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction, Dublin City University. He is a former visiting fellow at School of Politics and International relations, University College Dublin-UCD. He holds his Ph.D. in politics and history from Coventry University. He authored and published several articles and book chapters on a wide range of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, human security, NGOs, revolutionary movements, political violence, and the Middle East in Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Routledge, Pluto, Palgrave, Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security, Inter-Disciplinary Press and Springer. He is the book author: Hamas Transformation Opportunities and Challenges, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. He presented over 25 papers at conferences during the last four years throughout Europe. He also writes to Independent Australia. In addition to his scholarly work, he is being nominated for Tällberg Foundation Global Leadership Prize 2016. He is an international development consultant and worked for many international NGOs and the founder of the Society Voice Foundation in Palestine (2002). He also launched and managed various range of human rights, women’s empowerment and peacebuilding programmes and projects since 1997.
Dr Ibrahim Natil
Dublin City University
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This page is a summary of: Turkey's Foreign Policy Challenges in the Syrian Crisis, Irish Studies in International Affairs, January 2016, Royal Irish Academy,
DOI: 10.3318/isia.2016.27.8.
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