The state in Syria after the Arab Spring and the Turkish-Syrian relations in terms of Turkish foreign policy

The year that World War 1 came to the end, we saw a collapsed Ottoman Empire and fragmented Middle East. The states which are created by artificial boundries there has gone through a chaos environment up to now. They repeatedly face with wars, coups, revolts and intrigues and millions of people have been affected by these. In particular, The Arab Spring, which started in 2010 and still-continuing, has been the most painful process in the Middle East. This full-scale rebellion wave caused the death or migration of millions. However, it is surely beyond doubt that the most effected country in the Arab Spring is Syria. Though the other Arab counties overcame the process partially or totally, the civil war in Syria, which was formerly protests, is still going on. In this multi-actor war which has no winner, each day, new groups emerge and the conflicting parties try to consume each other's energy and resources with War of Attrition. In this study, having regard to the history and the demographic and geographic characteristics of Syria; the causes of the Arab Spring, its expansion in Syria, the effects of the civil war caused by the Arab Spring are investigated. Turkish foreign policy is evaluated in historical line and from this perspective, besides war's effects on the security of Turkey; its political, economic, social and cultural impacts were emphasized. Keywords: Arab Spring, Syria, Turkish Foreign Policy, Civil War, Refugees.