Turkey’s Middle Eastern policy was inaugurated by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk whose policy
reached its zenith with the establishment of the Pact of Sadabad in 1937. Thereafter this political
activism in the Middle East was abandoned by forthcoming Turkish leader, President
İnönü. İnönü adopted a rather passive policy in the regional affairs in order to follow a balanced
policy between Arabs and Jews for geopolitical reasons. When Democrat party came to
power in 1950 they re-embarked Turkey’s engagement in the Middle Eastern politics. Their
idea was to set up a kind of Arab-NATO under Turkey’s leadership. Their idea was first to
revive and develop the Sadabad Pact with which their efforts convert this pact into the Baghdad
Pact in 1955. Then their second aim was to secure Western especially American security
and economic aid. Apart from security imperatives, they believed that their political activism
against to the spread of communism in the Middle East could result western involvement in
the regional affairs and hence could result for more economic aid. Though Turkey to a greater
extend obtained their economic and political objectives vis a vis the West their policies with the
Arab states resulted in a failure. This was because there were fundamental differences in the
interests of Turkey and the Arab states.
This article is based on abundant archival documents available in Turkey and abroad.
It also consulted the available existing literature.
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Publication Date : December 14, 2017 |
| Bibtex | @research article { gav379629,
journal = {Gazi Akademik Bakış},
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publisher = {Hale ŞIVGIN},
year = {2017},
volume = {11},
pages = {245 - 259},
doi = {10.19060/gav.379629},
title = {Turkey’s Foreign Policy towards the Middle East in the 1950’s and Its Impact On Turco-Arab Relations},
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author = {Bilgin, Mustafa Sıtkı}
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| APA | Bilgin, M . (2017). Turkey’s Foreign Policy towards the Middle East in the 1950’s and Its Impact On Turco-Arab Relations . Gazi Akademik Bakış , 11 (21) , 245-259 . DOI: 10.19060/gav.379629 |
| MLA | Bilgin, M . "Turkey’s Foreign Policy towards the Middle East in the 1950’s and Its Impact On Turco-Arab Relations" . Gazi Akademik Bakış 11 (2017 ): 245-259 <https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/gav/issue/34361/379629> |
| Chicago | Bilgin, M . "Turkey’s Foreign Policy towards the Middle East in the 1950’s and Its Impact On Turco-Arab Relations". Gazi Akademik Bakış 11 (2017 ): 245-259 |
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| EndNote | %0 Gazi Akademik Bakış Turkey’s Foreign Policy towards the Middle East in the 1950’s and Its Impact On Turco-Arab Relations %A Mustafa Sıtkı Bilgin %T Turkey’s Foreign Policy towards the Middle East in the 1950’s and Its Impact On Turco-Arab Relations %D 2017 %J Gazi Akademik Bakış %P 1307-9778-1309-5137 %V 11 %N 21 %R doi: 10.19060/gav.379629 %U 10.19060/gav.379629 |
| ISNAD | Bilgin, Mustafa Sıtkı . "Turkey’s Foreign Policy towards the Middle East in the 1950’s and Its Impact On Turco-Arab Relations". Gazi Akademik Bakış 11 / 21 (December 2017): 245-259 . https://doi.org/10.19060/gav.379629 |
| AMA | Bilgin M . Turkey’s Foreign Policy towards the Middle East in the 1950’s and Its Impact On Turco-Arab Relations. Gazi Akademik Bakış. 2017; 11(21): 245-259. |
| Vancouver | Bilgin M . Turkey’s Foreign Policy towards the Middle East in the 1950’s and Its Impact On Turco-Arab Relations. Gazi Akademik Bakış. 2017; 11(21): 245-259. |
| IEEE | M. Bilgin , "Turkey’s Foreign Policy towards the Middle East in the 1950’s and Its Impact On Turco-Arab Relations", Gazi Akademik Bakış, vol. 11, no. 21, pp. 245-259, Dec. 2017, doi:10.19060/gav.379629 |
