Turkey s strategic role in the Middle East( Case Study Syrian crisis)

maryam goudarzi¹

1) Middle East and North African Studies graduate student of political science at Tehran University orientation

IOI Code : XYCH-AECKH
Publication : 3rd International conference on Management , Economics and Humanities(icmeh.org)
Abstract :
    In the contemporary world, the developments of the Middle East are considered as the most far-reaching and profound changes in the political structure of the countries of the region. Middle East and North Africa popular uprisings which began in Tunisia in January 2011 have caused the change of political regime in few Arabic countries. Syria as one of the countries in the region has been involved in these developments. Although many political, social and economic problems play role in the formation of the Syrian crisis, but certainly what exacerbated the crisis in Syria is the intervention of external actors. Today, with the formation of the crisis in the country, different regional and trans-regional actors have attended and each one has taken specific orientation based on their own interests. Turkey is one of the regional players that have taken an active approach in line with its interests on these developments. This paper seeks to examine the Turkey s positions based on realism theory, which advocates the overthrow of the ruling regime in Syria. The study examines the positions and views of Turkey in the Syrian crisis using descriptive-analytic method and based on the theory of realism.

Keywords : developments in arabic syria crisis turkey realism national interest