TURKEY'S FOREIGN POLICY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CONFLICTS BETWEEN EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN SECURITY

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21st century has taken its place in the historical books as a century inwhich the most tempestuous developments were experienced regarding theWorld history. This century in which many important events took place suchas the two major world wars, disappearing of tens of states from the sceneof the history, great economical crisis, collapse of the communism in theSoviets experience, creation of a new life form after the technology has beenplaced in the centre of the life, political crisis and atom bomb, has also thenature of being one of the most bloody centuries about which the worldhistory had witnessed. When we look at the aforementioned events, we seethat the crisis and wars formed the milestones of this century. What is ironicis that the Human Rights Declaration was also proclaimed and ratified inthis century. Wars are the time periods in which the interculturalinteractions are most intensive and destructive. The definitions of "ColdWar" and "hot war" made related with the intensities or profiles of thewars display that basically any time period without any war, conflict orstruggle is not possible.