Türkiye'nin stratejik kültürü

Profound changes that took place in the political process of Turkish Republic in the last fifteen years among other things exerted a profound impact on how the national government views foreign policy. New trends resulted in reconsideration of traditional approaches in the Turkish foreign policy where views on utilization of military power has been holding a dominant place. To grasp these new tendencies, we should turn to the analysis of the nature of Turkish strategic culture, i.e. views, ideas and norms linked to the military power use outside national borders. Cases from modern Turkish history when political decision-makers were facing with security issues and were pondering over deployment of power may give us a factual background for formation of theoretical views on strategic culture of Turkey.