Turkey and the US in the Middle East : diplomacy and discord during the Iraq wars / Gürcan Balik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balık, Gürcan, 1973- author.

Contributor:

British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Persian Gulf War, 1991.

Turkey--Foreign relations--United States.

Turkey.

Turkey--Military relations--United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Turkey.

United States.

United States--Military relations--Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Turkey and the United States in the Middle East

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016.

Summary:

"Written by the former chief foreign policy advisor to the Turkish president and based on unprecedented access to official documents and communiques, this book gives the inside story of Turkish US relations from the first Gulf War, through debates on the Iraqi Kurdish question, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and into the present day. Using events in Iraq as the basis for a theoretical case study, Gurcan Balik argues that Turkey influenced US foreign policy on several key occasions, and that Turkish support was instrumental in the first intervention in Iraq. After Iraq's 1991 uprisings, however, Turkey's interests in the Middle East began to diverge from those of the US, and their relationship gradually deteriorated, evident in Turkey's refusal to open up its northern border to aid the US advance to Baghdad in 2003. Balik contends that an 'Iraq gap' then emerged, which has since had major implications for the Turkish economy and for the future of the Middle East.Turkey and the US in the Middle East contains hitherto unpublished primary source material, and is an essential addition to the scholarship of the period."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Gulf War

Chapter 2: The Period of Unintended Consequences, 1991-1994

Chapter 3: The First Clashes Between Iraqi Kurdish Factions, 1994-1996

Chapter 4: The Period 1996-2001

Chapter 5: The Bush Administration And The Iraq War

Conclusions.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350989542

1350989541

9781786720818

1786720817

OCLC:

1166385054