Deciphering Turkey’s Assertive Military and Defense Strategy: Objectives, Pillars, and Implications

Yıl: 2020 Cilt: 22 Sayı: 3 Sayfa Aralığı: 89 - 114 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.25253/99.2020223.07 İndeks Tarihi: 09-11-2020

Deciphering Turkey’s Assertive Military and Defense Strategy: Objectives, Pillars, and Implications

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This article argues that the change in Turkey’s defense and militarystrategy stems both from Turkey’s changing security landscape followingthe post-Arab spring regional disorder and Turkey’s quest to be an assertiveregional player. The reasons behind the change in Turkish defense and military strategy also include a desire to gain political influence in the international arena and improve Turkey’s military capabilities to deter emergingsecurity threats near its borders and abroad. The article seeks to unpackTurkey’s growing assertive military and defense strategy by taking into account its main drivers, primary objectives and essential pillars, as well asits tangible repercussions on the military mindset. The article has two mainsections. The first section contextualizes Turkey’s new military and defensestrategy by taking into consideration its main drivers, objectives and pillars.The second empirically scrutinizes Turkey’s military strategy by focusing onits military activism in extra-territorial domains. In this section, Turkey’smilitary interventions in Syria following the failed military coup and itsstrategy of power projection are examined to explain the question of howTurkey operationalizes its new military and defense strategies.
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IEEE yesiltas m "Deciphering Turkey’s Assertive Military and Defense Strategy: Objectives, Pillars, and Implications." , ss.89 - 114, 2020. 10.25253/99.2020223.07
ISNAD yesiltas, murat. "Deciphering Turkey’s Assertive Military and Defense Strategy: Objectives, Pillars, and Implications". (2020), 89-114. https://doi.org/10.25253/99.2020223.07
APA yesiltas m (2020). Deciphering Turkey’s Assertive Military and Defense Strategy: Objectives, Pillars, and Implications. Insight Turkey, 22(3), 89 - 114. 10.25253/99.2020223.07
Chicago yesiltas murat Deciphering Turkey’s Assertive Military and Defense Strategy: Objectives, Pillars, and Implications. Insight Turkey 22, no.3 (2020): 89 - 114. 10.25253/99.2020223.07
MLA yesiltas murat Deciphering Turkey’s Assertive Military and Defense Strategy: Objectives, Pillars, and Implications. Insight Turkey, vol.22, no.3, 2020, ss.89 - 114. 10.25253/99.2020223.07
AMA yesiltas m Deciphering Turkey’s Assertive Military and Defense Strategy: Objectives, Pillars, and Implications. Insight Turkey. 2020; 22(3): 89 - 114. 10.25253/99.2020223.07
Vancouver yesiltas m Deciphering Turkey’s Assertive Military and Defense Strategy: Objectives, Pillars, and Implications. Insight Turkey. 2020; 22(3): 89 - 114. 10.25253/99.2020223.07
IEEE yesiltas m "Deciphering Turkey’s Assertive Military and Defense Strategy: Objectives, Pillars, and Implications." Insight Turkey, 22, ss.89 - 114, 2020. 10.25253/99.2020223.07
ISNAD yesiltas, murat. "Deciphering Turkey’s Assertive Military and Defense Strategy: Objectives, Pillars, and Implications". Insight Turkey 22/3 (2020), 89-114. https://doi.org/10.25253/99.2020223.07