TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY AND THE MIDDLE EAST IN 1950-1954
Keywords:
Republic of Turkey, Celal Bayar, Adnan Menderes, World War IIAbstract
This study analyzes the fundamental changes in the domestic political transformation and foreign policy orientations of the Republic of Turkey in the period following the Second World War. In the context of the new international system that emerged after the war, Turkey pursued an active policy aimed at being recognized as part of the European community in political, social, and cultural terms and at integrating into the Western world. In this process, the threat of the spread of communism originating from the Soviet Union became one of the key factors shaping the country’s foreign policy.
By the late 1950s, new directions also began to emerge in Turkey’s Middle East policy. The secret cooperation established between Turkey and Israel in 1958, known as the “Periphery Alliance,” was aimed at limiting Soviet influence in the region, countering pan-Arabism and radical political movements, and strengthening relations with Western countries.
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