International Security Strategic Environment and its Impact on Turkey's Strategy Towards Eastern Mediterranean

The international strategic environment is regarded as one of the important factors to determine the progress or decline of the country's external strategic performance. The research attempts to deal with the impact of the international strategic environment in activating or regressing Turkish orientations towards the eastern Mediterranean region. It also aims to get closer to the interactions of the international security environment related to the eastern Mediterranean region, their impact on the Turkish security requirements associated with the region itself. The research included three main sections, the first one studied the international actors and their impact on the regional security of the eastern Mediterranean, while the second section examined the international determinants of Turkish strategic performance in the eastern Mediterranean region. The third section focused on diagnosing the data of international economic competition and its bearing on the Turkish strategy in the eastern Mediterranean region. The research came out with some results, the most important of which is that the security equation that characterizes the international constantly changing environment according to the goals and interests of countries, whether they are major or minor, based on the instability and permanence of interests and goals, which drives countries to engage in competition and disharmony to achieve them.