Post Cold War era relations between Turkey and Syria

This thesis analyses the relations between Syria and Turkey between 1991 and 2009 and puts forth how Syria and Turkey relations went down and increased after Cold War. In the period after 2000, there is a closeness in the relations of Syrian and Turkey. But, Turkey and Syria who looks as friends in 2009, were in tension about water, Hatay and terror. Especially they were in an intense tension because of terror issue. This tension came to the verge of war in 1998. After Adana Agreement signed in 1998, Syria stopped to support PKK and other terrorist organizations. We can say that the relations between Syria and Turkey normalized after Adana Agreement. When Bashar Al-Assad came to power in Syria and AKP in Turkey, the relations improved more. The good relations reached to abolishment of visas in 2009. Nevertheless, all the issues between parts haven?t been solved yet, but are shelved. So that a real confidence hasn?t been constituted yet. Nontheless, Turkey and Syria became closer than ever before in 2009.As method, literature research is used.