2012’ DEN İTIBAREN TÜRK DIŞ POLİTİKASINDA FRANSIZ ETKİSİ

Year 2023, Volume: 11 Issue: 1, 1 - 15, 21.06.2023

Emre Kalay

https://doi.org/10.14514/beykozad.1241900

Abstract

Türkiye ve Fransa 1921’ den beri iyi ilişkilere sahip olmuştur fakat Türkiye ve Fransa’ nın çıkarları her zaman uyuşmamakta hatta 2012’ den beri pek çok konuda çatışmaktadır. Hatta Fransa, Türkiye’ nin uğraşmak durumunda olduğu pek çok problemli konunun merkezinde yer almaktadır. Avrupa Birliği çerçevesinde ilişkiler, 1915 Olayları, Akdeniz, Suriye meselesi, Afrika’ da nüfuz elde etme ve Kafkaslar’ daki pozisyonlar gibi pek çok dış politika meselesinde iki taraf sorunun karşı taraflarında yer almakta ve Türkiye, büyük bir güç olarak Fransa’ nın olayların seyrini değiştirebilme kabiliyeti nedeniyle kolayca görmezden gelemeyeceği için Fransız dış politikası ile mücadale etmek durumda kalmaktadır. İki ülke arasındaki bu dış politika yarışı statükoculuk ve revizyonizm kavramları ile yorumlanabilir. Bazı politika alanlarında Fransa statükocu iken Türkiye revizyonist olmakta, bazı diğer alanlarda roller değişebilmektedir. Bu çalışma vaka analizi yaklaşımı ile iki tarafın seçilen politika alanlarındaki pozisyonlarını ortaya koyma ve Türk Dış Politikası’ ndaki Fransa’ nın zorlayıcı etksini gösterme amacındadır.

Keywords

France, Türkiye, bilateral relations, status quoism, revisionism

FRENCH IMPACT ON TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY SINCE 2012

Abstract

Türkiye and France have had good relations since 1921. But interests of Türkiye and France do not mostly align and does even conflict in many cases since 2012. Even that France is at the very center of many problematic issues that Türkiye has to deal with. The two parties are on the opposite sides of each of many foreign policy issues -namely relations in the EU framework, the events of 1915, Mediterranean, Syrian question, possession of influence in Africa and the positions in the Caucasians- and Türkiye has to cope with French foreign policy to achieve its aims because France as a great power can not be disregarded easily for its capability to affect the course of events. The competition in foreign policy between two countries can be interpreted in terms of status quoism and revisionism. In some policy areas France is a status quo state while Türkiye is a revisionist and in some other areas, the roles are exchanged. This study aims to reveal the positions of two sides in the selected policy areas and display the challenging impact of France in Turkish Foreign Policy by using case study approach.

Keywords

France, Türkiye, bilateral relations, status quoism, revisionism

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