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Current Issues in Turkish Foreign Policy
Course Code: INR407
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: English
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 8
Objectives of the Course

The aim of this course is to give general explanation about Turkish foreign policy since the end of Cold War and to discuss recent issues.

Course Content

The end of Cold War changed the international system and produced great transformation over the states' foreign policies. In 1990s, Turkey's foreign policy agenda was quiete different comperatively with the previous period. In this course, firstly, we will try to analyze how Turkish foreign policy effected by the new developments and transformations of post-Cold War era. Specificly, we will focused on Turkey's relations with Greece, Iraq, USA and Syria. Formerly, the effects of 9/11 events over the world politics and specificly Turkey's near environment will be discussed. ın addition some new concepts, discourses and preferences of Turkish foreign policy which are belonged to 2000s (especially about Middle East and Balkans) will try to be explained with examples.

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