Turkish-Balkan relations in The Democratic Party Period (1950-1960)

The Democratic Party in 1946 with the establishment of multi-party politics of Turkey, which started in 1950, once again changing the ruling has a different size. Power, who met for the first time DP with different implementations of internal and external politics of the Republican people's Party has a different location. Apart from important elements power past the DP is extremely active foreign politics and regional cooperation efforts is not never. To be a member of NATO, Turkey has been a milestone for history and prepared all the political road map with this membership. 1950-1953 engaged in for NATO between Turkey, a regional Alliance in the future towards a Turkish foreign policy. Giving too much importance to the regional Alliance, looking to build friendly bilateral relations as well as DP, Ataturk's very large laboring how the principle of "independence" would fit? It's very important that both the Middle East and the Balkans came and stood them of events sure to watch Turkey was not possible. During this period, Turkey's new Government as soon as the Balkans and the Middle East more duty they are shaped with the new administration remain silent while he wanted to be an actor, is the embodiment of this phase. Keywords: Democratic Party, NATO, The Balkans, The Middle East, Foreign Policy