Helsinki Zirvesinden Günümüze AB-Türkiye İlişkileri Çerçevesinde Kıbrıs Gelişmeleri

In every era of significant transformation in its foreign policy, Turkey pushesforward the Cyprus problem in order to ensure legitimacy for its new policy. Ankara,who could initiate its process of adaptation to the new international system of the postCold War era only in 1999, pursed this transforma...

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Main Author: Melek M. Fırat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ankara University 2004-05-01
Series:Ankara Avrupa Çalışmaları Dergisi
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Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/847854
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Summary:In every era of significant transformation in its foreign policy, Turkey pushesforward the Cyprus problem in order to ensure legitimacy for its new policy. Ankara,who could initiate its process of adaptation to the new international system of the postCold War era only in 1999, pursed this transformation through Cyprus problem onceagain. This article depicts this process of transformation in Turkey, while examining thedevelopments regarding the Cyprus problem within the framework of Turkish-EUrelations in the post-Helsinki period. Furthermore, it evaluates the positions of TRNC(Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) and Greek Cypriot Administration and theirapproaches towards a solution to the problem. Finally, underlining that thedevelopments in Turkish foreign policy and Cyprus problem have reached a point of noreturn and the parameters of Cold War have changed, this article argues that Turkishforeign policy and the Cyprus problem have undergone a qualitative transformationand therefore should be analyzed through different lenses.
ISSN:1303-2518