By Ioanna Theou Turkey’s foreign policy cannot be fully understood without considering the historical and ideological frameworks that continue to shape its strategic thinking. Two of the most influential concepts are the Missak- i Milli (National Oath) and Ahmet Davutoglu’s ‘’Strategic…
The Turkish goals in the Syrian civil war and its military operations in northern Syria
By Ioanna Theou Turkey’s position in the Syrian civil war has been shaped by security concerns -due to the Kurdish presence close to the Turkish borders-, geopolitical ambitions, regional rivalries and ideological motivations. The beginning of the Syrian civil war in…
US foreign policy in Syria: Turkey, the Assad regime and the limits of American influence
By Ioanna Theou Introduction The main argument and the central research question This thesis seeks to answer to the following question; How and to what extend have peripheral actors – particularly Turkey but the Assad regime itself- shaped the US foreign…