Türkiye'nin İran ile değişen ilişkileri, 2002-2019: Bölgeci perspektif

This thesis examines Turkey's fluctuating foreign policy attitudes toward Iran between 2002-2019 based on the regionalist perspective. While there was a significant improvement in Turkey‟s relations with Iran in the early 2000s, Turkish foreign policy attitude toward Iran became tense following the Arab Uprisings that started in 2011 and has become manageable again since 2016. To understand such a floating change of relations between two regional powers, this thesis uses the regionalist perspectives of both Buzan and Wæver‟s Regional Security Complex Theory (RSCT) and Lake and Morgan‟s theory of regional orders. In this sense, it focuses on the local security externalities of Middle Eastern security complex and analyzes to what extent they have an impact on the regional positions of both Turkey and Iran. By considering their relations with the extra-regional powers and non-state armed groups in the region, it argues that the regional level, where the actions of both local and global actors intersect, is the most appropriate level of analysis for understanding Turkey-Iran relations during this period.