Turkey’s Policy in the Karabakh Dispute

Kakaei, Siamak; Dehghani Firouzabadi, Seyed Jalal

Turkey’s Policy in the Karabakh Dispute

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

siamak kakaei ¹

Seyed Jalal Dehghani Firouzabadi ²

¹ Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch

² Prefessor of International Relations of Faculty of Law & political Science, Allameh Tabatabai and Visiting Professor of IAU-North Tehran Branch

Abstract

Turkey-Azerbaijan relations, a year after the 2^nd Karabakh War, has taken complicated military, political and regional dimensions. Holding several joint military drills between Turkey and Azerbaijan has drawn attention of media circles and caused security concerns for some neighboring countries. In the Karabakh dispute, Turkey’s role in support of Azerbaijan for entering a new war with Armenia was deciding. This policy makes question about Turkey’s goals in supporting Azerbaijan in the war with Armenia. Turkey’s foreign policy since 2016 onward and after military interference in Syria has taken an aggressive aspect. It seems that Turkey’s support for Azerbaijan in the Karabakh dispute and the pace of events afterwards, are the continuation of the policy of militarism in surrounding perimeter. The authors of the present article believe that by indirect interference in the Karabakh dispute, Turkey pursues expansion of influence in the South Caucasus and Central Asia. In examination of Turkey’s foreign policy in the Karabakh dispute, realism and aggressive realism in particular are the theoretical bases.

Keywords

Karabakh

Turkey

Azerbaijan

Armenia

Relative Power

Aggressive Realism

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