Dergiler / Çağdaş Türkiye Tarihi Araştırmaları Dergisi / 2016 / Cilt: 16 - Sayı: 33
KIBRIS SORUNUNUN TÜRK DIŞ POLİTİKASINA ETKİSİ VE ABD-SSCB İLE İLİŞKİLER
- Sayfa
- 455–484
- DOI
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Özet
Stratejik açıdan tarihin her döneminde Doğu Akdeniz’de kilit konumunda bulunan
Abstract
The Cyprus Island, which have had a key role strategically in the EasternMediterranean in each period of the history, currently keeps its importance. Due to its strategicimportance, the political conflicts that exist in the island throughout the history still keep goingon. The Cyprus issue, started in late 1950’s, have been one of the most important matters thataffects the Turkish Foreign Policy and the internal political life and Turkish Foreign Policy have changed dramatically with this issue. With the start of the Cold War Period that followsthe end of the World War II, Turkey had chosen to follow up a unilateral pro-Western foreignpolicy. However in the Cyprus issue that peaked in 1974, Turkey couldn’t get the necessarysupport from its Western allies and instead was punished by US weapon embargo. In thisperiod it was bitterly experienced that the followed unilateral foreign policy had harmed thenational benefits. Afterwards Turkey has preferred to follow a more balanced multilateralforeign policy rather than a policy indexed to NATO and US-Soviet rivalry. In this articlethe relationships among Turkey, US and USSR are analyzed from political aspects and inthe context of international system within the framework of the Cyprus issue in the TurkishForeign Policy by scanning the archives and the Soviet press. When the nature of Turkish-USSR relations and the historical facts were examined in the context of a dynamical analysisand synchronous historical overview, citated relation appeared as a dependent factor of theinternational system and developments in their internal politics.