Turkish Communication foreign policy in the Middle East after the Islamic Awakening and approaches to odds with the Islamic Republic of Iran

The fact is that Turkey is geopolitically the most stable, powerful, and important country derived from the Ottoman Empire with the empire collapsed after the First World War. Given the being in Europe and a member of NATO at one hand, and implementing key activities in the Caucasus and West Asia on the other hand, Turkey has become to one of the most influential communities in the region. A country who are implementing a mosaic politics without a single and fixed policy about countries in the region from a long time ago especially from the Islamic awakening to the epoch of intensified Salafism and Takfiri groups' activities such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. For an example, the policies against Syria have been highly variable ranging from very good to very challenging relations. In the present study, authors are trying to explain what have been the most important Turkey's geopolitical objectives for isolating the Islamic Republic of Iran as a competitor and regional power from the Islamic awakening onward? Of among, the approaches such as the expansion a comprehensive relation with the United States of America, Israel, Saudi Arabia and adopting a hostile stance against Iran's allies including Iraq, Syria, etc will be discussed. Finally, the impacts of these policies on Iran's security and stability in West Asia will be presented. The issue will be explained using Cohen- Huntington theories and combined historical-historical sociology approaches.

Turkey, Justice and Development Party , Security and Stability, Political Isolation, the Islamic Republic of Iran.