Being Entrapped Between Change and Return to the Kemalist Political Culture: Two Stories of the Ak Party Foreign Policy in the Context of Arab Spring
Being Entrapped Between Change and Return to the Kemalist Political Culture: Two Stories of the Ak Party Foreign Policy in the Context of Arab Spring
Author(s): Rıdvan Kalaycı, Ünal TüysüzSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Government/Political systems
Published by: Gazi Akademik Bakış
Keywords: AK Party; Turkish Foreign Policy; Arab Spring; Kemalist Political Culture; Change;
Summary/Abstract: This study is about foreign policy implementations that applied to design Turkish politics before and after the Arab Spring periods by Ak Party, which entered the political scene with the wind of “change”and “reform”. In this context, the current study suggests that the AK Party, prior to the Arab Spring,reinterpreted the basic paradigms of the Kemalist political culture and shaped its foreign policy on these dynamics, but with the Arab Spring, experienced a shift towards the traditional line. In order to embody this argument, the relationship between political culture and foreign policy in the AK Party period is examined in detail.
Journal: Gazi Akademik Bakış
- Issue Year: 14/2020
- Issue No: 27
- Page Range: 83-104
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English