Turgut Özal period in Turkis foreign polici: Özalism

Abstract

This study examines the factors underlying the Özalist approach, such as Özal's personality, the 1980 coup and the isolation of Turkey, the economic boom, change in the socio-economic structure, globalisation of the Turkish economy and finally Kurdish separatism. A special emphasis will be laid on the ideological background of Özalist foreign policy, with a view to demonstrating the close relationship between Özal's Ottomanist foreign policy and his domestic approach and its translation to foreign policy.