The Impact of the Internal Strategic Environment on the Turkish Security Trends

Section: بحث
Issue
Vol. 15 No. 49 (2021): Volume 15 Issue 49
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
169-200

Abstract

The internal strategic environment is the main factor in which determining the extent or decline of the intervention in the strategic performance of the state. The effective influence cannot be achieved without a group of capabilities that qualify the state to perform external strategic performance that achieves its objectives. The research tries to explore the impact of Turkey's internal strategic environment in activating its security orientations towards countries in the near abroad. The problem of the study stems from the neglect of the interconnection between the influence of the growing components of power in the Turkish strategic environment and the increase of its strategic performance in the countries of the near abroad. From here, the hypothesis stems from that the internal strategic environment of Turkey has been playing a major role and an important starting point in determining the extent of activation or retreat of the Turkish strategic security performance. Therefore, the Turkish internal strategic environment change has represented one of the main pillars that led Turkey to activate its security orientations in the near abroad. As the work to increasing the elements of power in the internal strategic environment and the vision on which it was based by the Turkish leadership, as well as the vacuum that formed after a series of facts and events, especially after the political change in the Arab world, contributed to the increase of its external security role.

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Authors

Sherihan M. Ahmad

College of Political Sciences/ University of Mosul

Tariq M. Dhannon Altaee

College of Political Science/ University of Mosul

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https://doi.org/10.33899/regs.2021.168465
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M. Ahmad, S., شریهان, M. Dhannon Altaee, T., & طارق. (2025). The Impact of the Internal Strategic Environment on the Turkish Security Trends. Regional Studies Journal (RSJ), 15(49), 169–200. https://doi.org/10.33899/regs.2021.168465