Change of identity tenets in Turkey's foreign policy and its regional effects in the middle East

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ali nikokar ¹ (ilam)
Mahnaz Goodarzi ² (Faculty member Islamic Azad university of Isfahan (Khorasgan), International Relations Group, International, Isfahan, Iran)

Received: 2018-08-19 Accepted : 2018-09-12 Published : 2018-09-23

Keywords: regional security, western values, identity tenets, Turkish nationalism, Turkey&#039, s foreign policy,

Abstract :

With arrival of Justice and Development Party serious alterations occurred in Turkey's foreign policy and the country's Policy in the Middle East moved towards opposition than cooperation. The changes in Turkey's political and social contexts and the country's emphasis on layers of identity. Brought about ideological tensions that necessitate the investigation of changes in Turkey's identity tenets in the Middle East and it's regional effects. This study argues that Justice and Development Party's application as identity tenets in the Middle East entangles the country in ideological games that it has little in common with; and from another perspective, with a read of Islamism the country enters a rivalry field with Iran and Saudi Arabia each of which represents a part of it's identity (Sunni and Shiite) and from another aspects the two countries have opposite and common benefits. Thus, Turkey's presence in the Middle East brings about more complication in the regional equations and more disagreement in policies; and intensities ideological rivalries. This study was carried and according the Constructivist theory, the research method was descriptive –analytical; and the data were collected through library research.