SAUDI INTERVENTION AFTER ARAP URISINGS PROCESS IN YEMEN AND SAUDI IRAN TENSION

Yıl 2024, Cilt: 7 Sayı: 14, 105 - 118, 31.12.2024

Mehmet Candan

Öz

Yemen was one of the few countries that needed to reach a positive conclusion during the 2011 Arab Uprisings. However, due to the air operation launched by Saudi Arabia in March 2015, the process was interrupted and the country fell into a deeper crisis. In some interpretations of the crisis that Yemen has fallen into, the dominant view is that Saudi Arabia has instrumentalized the developments in Yemen for its own domestic policy in line with the regional goals of America and Israel. However, after the uprisings, the developments in Yemen were presented to the public as the Houthis, one of the parties to the internal conflict in Yemen, trying to take over Yemen as ‘Iran’s proxy’ and that Saudi Arabia was fighting against Iran’s sectarian expansion in Yemen. This article aims to explain the role of Saudi Arabia in the political crisis that Yemen, which was expected to achieve success as a result of the 2011 Arab Uprisings, has fallen into, by using the historical sociology method. This article will argue that Saudi Arabia, which deepened the crisis in Yemen with its airstrikes in 2015, triggered this crisis because it wanted to prevent possible throne fights in the near future and to secure the future kingdom of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS), and that it even used the sectarian and geopolitical conflict it had with Iran as a tool for this effort. Therefore, this article aims to explain how the Saudi Kingdom instrumentalizes Yemeni politics for the design of its own domestic politics in line with the Middle East politics of the US and Israel.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Yemen, Houthis, Saudi Arabia, US, Iran

SUUDİ ARABİSTAN’IN ARAP AYAKLANMALARINDAN SONRAKİ SÜREÇTE YEMEN’E MÜDAHALESİ VE SUUDİ-İRAN GERİLİMİ

Öz

Yemen, 2011 Arap Ayaklanmaları sürecinde olumlu sonuca ulaşması gereken birkaç ülkeden biriydi. Ancak, Suudi Arabistan'ın Mart 2015'te Yemen’e başlattığı hava operasyonu nedeniyle süreç kesintiye uğradı ve ülke daha derin bir krize girdi. Yemen’in içine düştüğü krize ilişkin yapılan kimi yorumlarda, Suudi Arabistan'ın Yemen'deki gelişmeleri Amerika ve İsrail'in bölgesel hedefleri doğrultusunda kendi iç politikası için araçsallaştırmış olduğu görüşü hâkimdir. Ancak ayaklanmalardan sonra Yemen’deki gelişmeler kamuoyuna Yemen’deki iç çatışmanın taraflarından Husilerin 'İran'ın vekili' olarak Yemen'i ele geçirmeye çalıştığı ve Suudi Arabistan'ın İran'ın Yemen'deki mezhepçi genişlemesine karşı mücadele etmekte olduğu şeklinde sunulmuştur. Bu makalede 2011 Arap Ayaklanmaları sonucunda başarıya ulaşması beklenen Yemen’in, tam aksine, içine düştüğü siyasal buhranda Suudi Arabistan’ın rolünün tarihsel sosyoloji yöntemi kullanılarak izah edilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Yine bu makalede, Yemen’e 2015’te düzenlediği hava saldırıları ile ülkedeki krizi daha da derinleştiren Suudi Arabistan’ın, bu krizi tetiklemesindeki asıl nedenin, ülkesinde yakın gelecekte yaşanması muhtemel taht kavgalarını engellemek ve veliaht prens Muhammed Bin Selman’ın (MBS) müstakbel krallığını güvence altına almak olduğu, İran’la yaşadığı mezhepsel ve jeopolitik çekişmeyi bile bu çabasına alet ettiği ileri sürülecektir. Dolayısıyla bu makalede, Suud Hanedanlığının Yemen siyasetini ABD ve İsrail’in Ortadoğu siyaseti doğrultusunda kendi iç siyasetinin dizaynı için nasıl araçsallaştırdığının izah edilmesi amaçlanmaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Husiler, İran, Yemen, Suusi Arabistan, ABD

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