Turkey and the OIC: 1984-1992

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Turkey and the OIC: 1984-1992

Öz

This paper analyzes the intensification of Turkey's relations with the
Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in stages from 1984 to the present
(Summer of 1992) from an historical perspective.
What were the objectives Turkey expected to achieve from this
relationship? What roles has Turkey assumed in the OIC to achieve them,
and how consistent have these roles been with Turkey's alliance ties with the
West? To what degree, if any, have the Turks been able to achieve these
objectives and what were the reasons for their successes and failures? These
are the main questions that will be considered in this analysis.
It is the hope of the author that the analysis that will be carried out in
this work, aside from exploring an important aspect of Turkey's relations
with the Islamic WorId, will also contribute to a realistic assessment of the
capacity Turkey is currently assumed to have by the West1
, as a Westernoriented Islamic country, to play a stabilizing role in her increasingly volatile
neighbourhood in the post-Cold War era.  

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Turkey
• the OIC
• 1984-1992