After the military coup, it was clearly understood that the economic success was the key factor

Though it may sound heartless and selfish, the needs and aims of countries usually are the primary factor controlling their foreign relations. During the period of the czars, from 1547 to 1917, Russia’s need for land and modernization shaped its relationships with Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire, causing Russia’s leaders to respect and imitate Western Europe while competing with the European powers to fill the power vacuum of the failing Ottoman Empire.

The Modernization efforts undertaken by the leadership of Iran and Turkey after World War I share numerous similarities across ideological, and social lines. Both countries shared and benefitted from strong social identities, and resistance to outside influence. While these countries were unified using comparable methods, they were also exploited to further the individual goals of both countries? respective leaders.

The foreign policies of Russia also compliments in many ways its domestic policies, both in the apparent want for dominance and security in the focal point on sovereignty. These aims lead to an importance on bringing back Russia’s international status and removing positions of power that Western states have had in Russia

This all started with the old constitution being brought back, a group called The Young Turks (TYT) seized power from the previous sultan and reinstated the constitution. The Young Turks would be the “bad guy” in the scenario, The Greeks, The Armenians, and the Assyrians are the

Since his book focuses so strongly on the conflicts of the Balkans, Dadrian is able to concentrate much of his argument on the basis that the Turks used to war, both the Balkan wars and World War I, as a way of hiding the deportations and the slaughters of the Armenian people that eventually lead to genocide. Here Dadrian excels against his fellow three scholars who have not centered their arguments as heavily around this detail. Dadrian discusses the Ottoman Empire's long history of power and war and how the Ottomans used this as a way to hide their violent actions. Through the use of the Balkan War conflicts the Armenian Question was slowly formed in order to deal with the massive population of Armenians in the Ottoman territory. The Ottomans who were unable to separate to separate religion from their state affairs and eventually dragged the Armenians into these issues. Through harsh and unreasonable forms of victimization, the Turks began to take out their frustration on the Armenian population for their losses and hardships. the hatred of the Armenians steadily grew as reforms were formed in order to rid the land of the

The trials and tribulations of the Armenian people have been an omnipresent facet of the world’s political stage for hundreds of years. Like many groups during the rise and fall of empires, these Caucasus natives were juggled into the hands of many civilizations as power was exchanged in Eurasia in the first millennium (Armenian Genocide). In 1514, Armenia – located between the Black and Caspian seas – was annexed into the Ottoman Empire, and because the caliphs of this superpower were practicing Muslims, the Christian Armenian minority was forced to pay higher taxes and had few political rights (Armenian Genocide). Resentment against Armenians quickly grew as a result of their success as educated, wealthy entrepreneurs and merchants, whose their quality of life was distinctly better than that of their lowly Turkish neighbors, the majority of

Since the end of the 19th century Russian-German conflict grew. The expansion of German imperialism in the Middle East, its attempts to establish control over Turkey affected the economic, political and military-strategic interests of Russia. In its customs policy Germany sought to limit by high import duties the import of grain from Russia and at the same time ensure the free access for German industrial goods to the Russian market.

With the aid of influential superpowers such as America and Soviet Union, Ottoman Turkey claimed ownership of some of Armenia’s ancient lands near the end of the 19th century. The whole conflict itself was consistently compounded by more and more factors that complicated matters. Within time, Turkey imploded with success and good fortune while Armenia suffered the after effects of the early 1900’s for the next century to come. Armenians and Turks once actually co-existed in the Ottoman Empire centuries ago; however they are now troubled with the past. While 500 years ago, both Armenians and Turks exerted equal efforts to expand their empire in battles such as the Battle of Chaldiran, their powers are no longer parallel: “Turkey holds 780,000 square miles and Armenia is no larger than the state of Rhode Island” [1]. Turkey now is skyrocketing in the economic sector with a surplus of jobs, housing, and overall government wealth while most of Armenia’s inhabitants are almost the polar opposite; jobless and stricken with poverty. The issue is if there is a direct relation between the huge success of one country and the rapid decline of another. Armenia believes their low population and land area is a result of a genocide carried out by Turkey, while Turkey claims that it was war: Armenia also deliberated violent atrocities against Turkey. Taking into consideration the time period, the onset of World War 1, there is

Summary: A closed think-tank meeting held JUL17 in German, has identified the Western Balkans as the next crisis area as Turkey and Russia continue to promote instability within the region. The group identified three areas, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia, as potential targets of Russian and Turkish supported annexation by Serbia and Albania. Despite Turkey’s suspicions of Russia, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is cooperating more closely with President Vladimir Putin and is now seen by many NATO members as becoming a NINO (NATO in Name Only) power.

At that time big countries and empires faced difficulties due to the difference in religious affiliations and ethnic ideologies. The writing also went back to the future to examine what has happened many years after the exercise. There is still tension in relations between Turkey and Greece, which continued to soften in what seemed a very slow but sure process. The most vital part of the book is the one that helps to understand the effects that ethnic cleansing has had to date. It not only affected the survivors, but also their offspring and the future generations. the book made me enriched me academically, but it also allowed me to delve deeper into the emotion and the pain of the

In Peter Holquest's The Politics and Practice of the Russian Occupation Armenia, he examines the changes and goals of the Russian policies towards the Armenian community. Holquest begins to explain that Russian policy towards Armenia during World War 1 was to dupe the Armenians. The policy was to allow the Russians to use the Armenians against the Ottoman Turks; this was also a means to annex Turkish Armenia. The policy remains unchanged from 1912 to early 1916; the Russian government avoid any measures that might antagonize the Ottomans (3). The Russian government began to realize that pressing reforms would antagonize the Ottomans and only cause them to reject any sort of treaties or advice. As Turkey began to implement military operations against in 1914, Russian looked at Armenians as allies and as an threat to the Ottomans. Nicholas II proclaimed that a brilliant future awaits Armenia which was not entirely true due to anger under tsarists rule.

Ottoman Empire’s economy emerged a problem due to their lack of consciousness to modernize. The most important external reason, highly affect its economic later on, is the changing of the global trading

I have been waiting for the Arch Duke Ferdinand moment, the one conflict that spark the fires or war. In my estimation, Turkey’s actions against Russia may as well be that moment. The words of Otto von Bismarck still ring true to this day “ One day the great European War will come out some damned foolish thing the Balkans”.

Turkey is the 18th largest economy body in the world, the 6th largest economy entity in Europe, GDP with $786 billion, GNI per capita with $10, 970, which belong Upper middle income country (World Bank, 2013). Service industry contributed approximately 64.9% for GDP, the industrial sector just over a quarter, agriculture was about 8.2% (CIA, 2014). Moreover, Turkey has a sustainable and steady growth after structural reforms and macroeconomic stabilization since 2001, Turkish economy is becoming diversified and export-oriented due to the large inflow of FDI (ibid). GDP is expected to grow by about 5% over the next five years, single-digit inflation rate will continue to decline (Invest in Turkey, 2014: 24).

I have always wondered about the affairs between states and political strategies the states apply to determine their relations. My interest and curiosity in affairs between states and their designated policies to determine their affairs became more obvious when I was at high school. I started to read about political history, specifically; political history of Europe between 16th – 20th centuries. Events like Thirty Years War, Treaty of Westphalia, French Revolution, First and Second World Wars in Europe, which shaped today’s international system in many ways, developed my interest in International Politics and their effects to the societies. Throughout high school years, In addition to my readings on European political history; my country, Turkey’s foreign policy influenced me to study on it. Turkey’s geostrategic position is unique and worthy to study. By security perspective, economically and politically stable Turkey is vital for the stability of the Middle East and Caucasus. Also important for the security of EU. By economic point of view, developing energy projects such as; TANAP (Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline Project), which will be passing through Turkey and existing energy projects such as; Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which is passing through Turkey, are important for energy distribution to Europe. Furthermore, Turkey can play an important role to enhance commercial and economic