DURING the YUGOSLAVIAN SEPERATION PERIOD, TURKEY’S DOMESTIC POLITICAL SITUATION and APPROACH TO DISINTEGRATION
YUGOSLAVYA’NIN DAĞILMA SÜRECİNDE TÜRKİYE’NİN İÇ SİYASİ DURUMU ve DAĞILMAYA YAKLAŞIMI

Author : Halil AKMAN
Number of pages : 139-156

Abstract

Because of its geographical position and strategic characteristics, Turkey is one of the countries affected by the development and changes in the world. With the formation of a bipolar world as a result of World War II, Turkey, surrounded by the communist block, was greatly influenced by this formation and made great efforts to determine its location. Together with the Soviet Union's threatening approach, it tried to put itself under the umbrella of NATO in the West Block and was also heavily influenced by the collapse of bipolar world. After the seperation of the Soviet Union, the problems occured in Yugoslavia and the Bosnian War began. With the effect of the domestic political pressures as well, Turkey has to be interested in the area since it had religious, cultural and historical ties. This article examines the situation of Turkey in the beginning of 1990s, its approach to the disintegration of Yugoslavia and Bosnian War.

Keywords

Bosnia Herzegovina, Turkey, Bosnia, Bosnian War

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