Practical Geopolitical Reasoning in the Turkish and Qatari Foreign Policy on the Arab Spring

Pala, Ozgur; Aras, Bülent

doi:10.1080/19448953.2015.1063274

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“…“The AKP government was quite supportive of President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in general, extending political, economic and technical assistance to ensure its success” (Altunışık, 2014, p. 11). The Morsi government’s connections with the MB groups across the region were useful for the AKP government to further its political influence in the Middle East (Pala & Aras, 2015, p. 11).…”

Section: Turkish–egyptian “Spring” During the Arab Uprisings Periodmentioning

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The Pendulum of Majoritarianism: Turkey’s Governmental Self-Identity and Turkish–Egyptian Relations

Tetik

2021

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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Turkey’s relations with Egypt abruptly hit rock bottom following the Egyptian army’s ousting of Mohammed Morsi in July 2013. Despite significant political fluctuations between the two countries, there is a gap in academic literature about addressing alterations in Turkish–Egyptian relations holistically. To this end, this article proposes that Turkey’s volatile relationship with the Egyptian governments since the so-called Arab Spring is partially a reflection of broader institutional changes in Turkey’s domestic settings. One of these salient changes is the discursive transformation of Turkish national self-perception. This article shows how Turkey’s new governmental self-understanding of “majoritarianism” manifests in its relations with Egypt. It asserts that this transformation in the governmental perception of the national-self made Turkey’s policies on Egypt, which oscillate between one extreme to another, “conceivable/thinkable” via the medium of national identity discourses. It shows the interplay between the governmental identity discourses of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) elites and Turkey’s policies on Egypt in the institutional/non-discursive foreign policy field.

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Section: Turkish–egyptian “Spring” During the Arab Uprisings Periodmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Pendulum of Majoritarianism: Turkey’s Governmental Self-Identity and Turkish–Egyptian Relations

Tetik

2021

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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“…In other words, each of these countries firmly endorsed the idea that they should pursue a more proactive diplomacy. For both Turkey and Qatar, their (new) foreign policy took its lead from a "geopolitical reasoning" based on altered regional amity-enmity dichotomies (Pala and Aras 2015). Hence both these countries-so diverse in terms of their qualities and capabilities-have collaborated to challenge the Saudi-led hegemony in one of the regional blocs.…”

Section: A Framework For Qatar-turkey Rapprochementmentioning

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Qatar–Turkey Rapprochement: Challenging the Regional Status Quo in the Gulf Security Sub-complex

Özşahin

2020

Gulf Studies

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With the election of the Justice and Development Party (JDP hereafter) 1 and Qatar's leadership change in 1995, there is no doubt that interactions between Turkey and Qatar have gained pace. The Turkey-Qatar alliance reached a new high after the Arab Spring, with these two countries emerging as two pro-revolutionary states that are disturbing the status quo in the Middle East. The ties established between Turkey and Qatar have continued even after the Arab uprisings: Turkey stood by Qatar during the 2017-18 diplomatic crisis between Qatar and the Gulf states including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain. Similarly, Qatar supported Turkey financially after the devastating currency crisis in August 2018. Moreover, Turkey has established a military base in Qatar, which is of critical significance in the history of Turkish foreign policy. Therefore, one can safely argue that Turkey and Qatar have formed an alliance based on their diverse military and economic needs.This analysis argues that Turkey and Qatar sought to change the regional status quo in order to forge a new regional security order. Accordingly, to achieve this goal, Turkey and Qatar cemented an alliance based on their diverse qualities as military and financial powers respectively. Nevertheless, the fundamental cause of the Turkish-Qatari alliance in challenging the regional status quo lies not only in concerns related to their security or power-seeking behavior, but also in certain shared values and common visions based on their ideas and identities. Therefore, it can be claimed that the transformation in the domestic politics of these states played a decisive role in shaping the Turkey-Qatar alliance, which in turn has had a major impact on the regional mosaic in the Middle East. In a nutshell, this paper contends that the Gulf security sub-complex was reshaped in the wake of the Arab uprisings, notably through the emergence of Turkey and Qatar as revisionist states. Accordingly, it

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“…37 Thousands of demonstrators carried "ResistGezi" signs to demonstrate their solidarity with the protesters in Istanbul. Although Prime Minister Erdoğan's reactions to protest movements against foreign governments during the Arab Spring had been supportive of democratic rights and freedoms, 38 when facing domestic protests, he responded differently. Rather than an exercise of freedom of expression, Prime Minister Erdoğan perceived these demonstrations as a coup attempt and authorized a heavy-handed police response.…”

Section: The Dynamics Of Escalation and De-escalation During Gezi Promentioning

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The Gezi Park Protests and the Escalation and De-Escalation of Political Contention

Demirel-Pegg

2018

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies

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This study argues that escalation and de-escalation processes lie at the heart of protest campaigns. These processes are largely determined by the interactions between protesters and governments, as well as the timing and types of strategies and tactics employed. The study examines the dynamics between the Turkish government and the protesters during the 2013 Gezi Protest Campaign. This campaign escalated quickly by generating massive support from different segments of the Turkish society in its earlier days, and then de-escalated and eventually demobilized without securing major concessions. By using original data collected from a Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet, the study illustrates how the trajectory of the Gezi campaign changed in response to the interactive dynamics between the government and the dissidents.

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Practical Geopolitical Reasoning in the Turkish and Qatari Foreign Policy on the Arab Spring

Cited by 19 publications

References 7 publications

The Pendulum of Majoritarianism: Turkey’s Governmental Self-Identity and Turkish–Egyptian Relations

The Pendulum of Majoritarianism: Turkey’s Governmental Self-Identity and Turkish–Egyptian Relations

Qatar–Turkey Rapprochement: Challenging the Regional Status Quo in the Gulf Security Sub-complex

The Gezi Park Protests and the Escalation and De-Escalation of Political Contention

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