Gender and foreign policy: Tansu Çiller Era in Turkish foreign policy 1996-97

The main aim of this thesis is to endeavor to associate the gender studies and International Relations studies through Tansu Çiller who is Turkey's first female foreign minister. In the study examines the existence of gender relations in the foreign policy institution. The main purpose of this examination is to answer how women decision-makers behave when they are involved in the foreign policy institution and how gender affects the structure of the institution by way of performative acts.In order to understand the domination relations in the foreign policy institution through gender, the focus of analysis will be Çiller's discourse. The purpose here is to explain how the masculine-feminine identities are located in Çiller's discourse and how this affects the relationship between foreign policy and traditional masculine mentality.