@article{article_641271, title={Turkey and the OIC: 1984-1992}, journal={The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations}, pages={101–131}, year={1993}, DOI={10.1501/Intrel_0000000179}, author={Aykan, Mahmut Bali}, keywords={Turkey, the OIC, 1984-1992}, abstract={<p>This paper analyzes the intensification of Turkey’s relations with the <br />Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in stages from 1984 to the present <br />(Summer of 1992) from an historical perspective. <br />What were the objectives Turkey expected to achieve from this <br />relationship? What roles has Turkey assumed in the OIC to achieve them, <br />and how consistent have these roles been with Turkey’s alliance ties with the <br />West? To what degree, if any, have the Turks been able to achieve these <br />objectives and what were the reasons for their successes and failures? These <br />are the main questions that will be considered in this analysis. <br />It is the hope of the author that the analysis that will be carried out in <br />this work, aside from exploring an important aspect of Turkey’s relations <br />with the Islamic WorId, will also contribute to a realistic assessment of the <br />capacity Turkey is currently assumed to have by the West1 <br />, as a Westernoriented Islamic country, to play a stabilizing role in her increasingly volatile <br />neighbourhood in the post-Cold War era.   <br /> </p>}, number={23}, publisher={Ankara University}