2002-2011 arasında Avrasya'ya yönelik Türk dış politikasındaki değişimin doğası: Ayarlama değişikliği

The phenomenon of change or reconstruction in foreign policy design is an important theme in the discipline of International Relations. In the post-Cold War era, the actors such as Turgut Özal and İsmail Cem laid the ground for change in Turkish foreign policy towards Eurasia with the novelties they brought, but the real change was supposedly experienced in the period of Ahmet Davutoglu between 2002 and 2011. The primary purpose of this study is to examine the changes in Turkish foreign policy towards Eurasia under the leadership of the Justice and Development Party between 2002¬-2011 with comparisons to the foreign policy designs of its predecessors. This study argues that the change that occurred as a result of the adoption of the Strategic Depth doctrine in Turkish foreign policy does not provide sufficient evidence to assert that there was a shift of axis in the TFP towards Eurasia. Instead, the change in TFP can be regarded as "adjustments changes" on the basis of Hermann's categorization of foreign policy change.