Ramil Mirgasimovich  Valeev, Sabina Nameddinovna  Kulueva, 
    Change of Turkey’s Middle East Policy in the Second Half of the
XX Century in the Context of Relations with Syria,
    The Social Sciences,
    Volume 11,Issue 25,
    2016,
    Pages 6162-6165,
    ISSN 1818-5800,
    sscience.2016.6162.6165,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.6162.6165)
    Abstract: The purpose of this article is to study trends in the Middle East policy of Turkey in the second half
of the twentieth century. In the basis of the work are key components of the policy of Turkey’s relations with
the countries of the region. The basic research method is a systematic approach, for the Middle East policy of
Turkey is a separate subsystem in the system of foreign policy of Ankara. As tools of historical research were
used such methods as historic-genetic and problem-chronological. Historical-genetic method allows us to trace
the successive disclosure of changes in the object of this study. Problem-chronological method of study and
presentation contributes to the progressive lighting of features of significant events of regional and
international importance. As a result of the study a trend of transformation of the Middle East policy of Turkey
was revealed. The policy of active rapprochement with the United States and the European Union, adopted by
the Turkish leadership, has negatively affected Turkey’s relations with the countries of the Middle East region.
Nevertheless, some regional events and the negative results of a one-vector policy, forced Turkey to establish
relations with its neighbors, including Syria, relations with which from 1938 were characterized as tensed. In our
opinion, the fact that many researchers have noted the priority of relations of Turkey with the West, until the
end of the cold war era, quite incorrect, for the analysis of bilateral treaties in the field of trade, culture, security
indicates the trend of establishing interstate relations with the countries of the Middle East region (Iraq, Iran,
Syria, Israel).
    Keywords: Turkeys foreign policy;Middle East;Syrias foreign policy;International relations;Adana agreement;arab-Israeli conflict;the Kurdish issue