Türkiye'nin dış politikasında Kürt sorununun etkisi -1980'lerden bugüne
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This study handles, from 1980s to today, the impact of the Kurdish question on Turkey?s foreign policy by using the instruments and concepts of the rule oriented constructivism, such as agent, structure, identity, collective identity, speech act and rules. The main intention of this study is to show that the Kurdish identity, as a subject of an unsolved question, is determinant almost in all areas of Turkey?s foreign policy.First chapter examines Turkey?s relations with her neighbors and near environment, using the concept of collective identity. The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate that the opposition to the Kurdish identity leads to the construction of a collective identity amid Turkey and her neighboring states. Thus this collective identity provides the continuity of their relations, being a reason of conflict or cooperation.Second chapter handles the impact of the Kurdish question as a human right question on Turkey?s relations with the western institutions and states. It aims to reveal that Kurdish question influences Turkey?s foreign policy, on the one hand by constructing rules regarding the relations with the western institutions and states, and on the other hand by being a subject in the speech acts of various NGOs.Final chapter maintains that Kurdish question, as an unsolved problem, being increasingly more and more salient, nourishes Turkish nationalism and thus influences Turkey?s foreign policy. In this context, the Kurdish question on the one hand leads to the redefinition of the Turkish national identity contending new geographical areas and on the other hand causes the reproduction of the Turkish nationalism by the civil and military institutions. Therefore, with the dominance of a nationalist framework in Turkey?s foreign policy, it becomes difficult to follow a rational foreign policy model.