{"id":290,"date":"2013-02-14T12:55:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kapoktreediplomacy.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=290"},"modified":"2018-12-20T12:17:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:17:19","slug":"zero-problems-enhancing-security-and-preventing-conflict-in-turkeys-evolving-partnerships-with-the-european-union-united-states-middle-east-russia-and-eurasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kapoktreediplomacy.com\/hp_wordpress\/zero-problems-enhancing-security-and-preventing-conflict-in-turkeys-evolving-partnerships-with-the-european-union-united-states-middle-east-russia-and-eurasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero Problems – Enhancing Security and Preventing Conflict in Turkey\u2019s Evolving Partnerships with the European Union, United States, Middle East, Russia and Eurasia"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Zero Problems – Enhancing Security and Preventing Conflict in Turkey\u2019s Evolving Partnerships with the European Union, United States, Middle East, Russia and Eurasia” by Kapok Tree Diplomacy\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Turkey\u2019s security partnerships with Europe, NATO and the United States have played an important role in its foreign policy decisions since the 1950\u2019s as a counter to Russia during the Cold War (CountryWatch, \u201cPolitical History\u201d). Founded on the principles of \u201csecularism, strong nationalism, statism, and to a degree, western orientation\u201d by Mustafa Kemal after the collapse of the 600-year old Ottoman Empire (U.S. State Dept., Background Note), Turkey is uniquely positioned at the crossroads and nexus of \u201cfour areas of growing strategic importance in the post-Cold War era\u201d (Larrabee 3): the Balkans and Europe, the Middle East and Persian Gulf region, and the Caucasus\/Central Asia region. <\/p>\n

With the end of the Cold War and the onset of two Persian Gulf Wars, Turkey\u2019s interests and strategic alliances began to markedly shift their trajectories (Larrabee 6-9). This paper will explore Turkey’s recent modifications of its strategic security partnerships from the perspectives of key states within each of its regional spheres of influence in a context of conflict prevention. Section One will review the Balkans and European perspective; in Section Two the Middle East; Eurasia and the Caucasus in Section Three with a special slant on Russia; and in Section Four the United States. Section Five will review Turkey\u2019s internal domestic issues to include the Kurdish challenge, political trends, global aspirations and some interesting comparisons with China. The paper will conclude with Section Six and some recommended conflict prevention strategies to counterbalance Turkey\u2019s various threats. <\/p>\n

The views and opinions expressed in this paper are completely my own and do not represent the views or opinions of the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of the Navy (DON) or any of the Armed Forces. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,229,319,1],"tags":[449,23,416,419,423,436,459,466,458,405,456,455,469,411,457,22,433,99,471,434,409,448,37,426,431,407,415,424,428,425,404,417,435,408,422,45,472,462,410,429,440,38,451,79,445,252,418,446,441,420,461,439,56,465,470,412,453,460,302,443,463,464,413,251,432,36,442,421,430,427,467,54,447,255,454,28,414,452,444,406,437,468,438,450],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations","category-paid-content","category-preventing-and-containing-international-conflicts","category-uncategorized","tag-afghanistan","tag-africa","tag-ahmet-davutoglu","tag-akp","tag-ankara-protocol","tag-annan-plan","tag-armenia","tag-armenian-turkish-relations","tag-azerbaijan","tag-balkans","tag-black-sea","tag-blue-stream-ii-pipeline","tag-cagaptay","tag-caucasus","tag-caucasus-stability-and-cooperation-platform","tag-china","tag-common-security-and-defense-policy","tag-cooperation","tag-counterbalancing","tag-csdp","tag-cyprus","tag-davutoglu","tag-democracy","tag-emfta","tag-erdogan","tag-eu","tag-eu-accession","tag-eu-customs-union","tag-eu-subsidies","tag-euro-mediterranean-free-trade-area","tag-europe","tag-european-commission-on-enlargement","tag-european-defense-agency","tag-european-union","tag-europeanization","tag-five-principles-of-peaceful-coexistence","tag-foreign-policy","tag-genocide","tag-greece","tag-greek-cypriots","tag-honest-broker","tag-human-rights","tag-influence","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-israel","tag-justice-and-development-party","tag-kurdistan","tag-kurdistan-workers-party","tag-kurds","tag-mass-deportation","tag-mavi-marmara-flotilla","tag-middle-east","tag-minsk-group","tag-muslims","tag-mustafa-kemal","tag-nabucco-pipeline","tag-nagorno-karabakh","tag-nato","tag-nuclear","tag-organization-for-security-and-cooperation-in-europe","tag-osce","tag-ottoman-empire","tag-pakistan","tag-partnership-for-peace","tag-peaceful-coexistence","tag-pkk","tag-preferred-partnership","tag-prime-minister-erdogan","tag-pro-western","tag-reconciliation","tag-regimes","tag-rhythmic-diplomacy","tag-russia","tag-samsun-ceyhan","tag-soft-power","tag-strategic-security-partnerships","tag-sudan","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-cypriots","tag-two-faced","tag-world-economic-forum","tag-zero-problems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31a0x-4G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapoktreediplomacy.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapoktreediplomacy.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapoktreediplomacy.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapoktreediplomacy.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapoktreediplomacy.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kapoktreediplomacy.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/kapoktreediplomacy.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapoktreediplomacy.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapoktreediplomacy.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapoktreediplomacy.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}