Foreign Direct Investment Vs. The United Kingdom

The civil war that continues to rage in Syria for the past five years has been one of both great loss and great interest. Several key actors from around the world such as the United States, Russia, Turkey, the Syrian government, Syrian rebels or National Coalition, Iran, and Saudi Arabia all have a great amount at stake based on the outcome of the war. Thus, the difficulties of negotiating peace are almost impossible to overcome, which causes great powers like that of the U.S. and Russia to use their resources in order to obtain their desired outcome. In this essay, I will be outlining the key actors, which side they are on, and what is at stake for each of them within this civil war, as well as examining how this turmoil has “[created] a haven for the Islamic State to move in.” Now let us identify the key actors who have a stake in this civil war.

The Turkish government, having escaped accountability for its attempted eradication of an entire population, continues to harvest the fruits of its crimes. Today its leaders, encouraged by the world's

They endure near daily causalities and recently Ankara has undertaken a bifurcated anti-terror program against the PKK and the IS. Frequent attacks in Turkey by the IS and the PKK has driven Turkey to kill 260 Kurdish militants as of August 1, 2015. The reasoning for these death tolls within a week-long air raid in northern Iraq is due to nine civilian causalities in Turkey and Iraq. "For the peace and security of our people, the fight against terror organi[z]ations will continue without interruption,” as stated by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The PKK’s rebellion for rights and power for Turkey’s Kurdish minority has been ongoing for the past thirty years and has left tens of thousands dead. Though a ceasefire was issued in 2013, Turkey’s Kurdish militants have sought refuge in northern Iraq where the PKK has been tolerated and continue to dodge such attacks. The PKK has been instructed to terminate fire in populated areas. Turkey’s president Erdogan hopes to shut down this “fascist” organization by the end of the year. Turkey’s and Iraq’s goals are to see the Kurds and their parties purged from their

By the way, there is a breakaway state in the north run by the Kurds who want to fight IS (which is a good thing) but the Turkish authorities think they are bad, so we have to say they are bad whilst secretly thinking they're good and giving

As a safety measure toward the Islamic State, “the growing presence of Muslim fundamentalism” (ABC-Clio), the U.S. militarily has supported the Kurdish armed force in Syria, a minority ethnic group in the Middle East, to counter against the IS. However, Turkey claimed that the armed force has a connection to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which has is designated as a terrorist group by Turkey. Despite the insistence of the country, the U.S. has not ceased the support, creating a split between the two countries.

Turkey is actively bombing PKK resistance forces. They are also studies by universities that show turkey policies are actively supporting the Islamic state. In this way, it can and that Turkey is almost an ally of the Islamic state and they are harming the global war against this rogue terrorist group. Another major problem is Isis sales oil product, which makes them around 500 million dollars per years. There have been allegations that president Erdogan was directly engaging in oil trade with the Islamic state terrorist organization. He even promised that he would resign from the office if, in fact, the allegation were truth. Turkey government has failed to protect their own borders, allowing the terrorist group to export oil and trade oil through the turkey -Syria

Turkey has parliamentary democracy. People get a say on how their laws work. They are involved in a war in Syria as they work with the US together to fight a terrorist group called “ISIS”. Turkey has a long historic alliance, partnership and cooperation with USA. These two countries share interest in security and stability. These to countries always help each other when there is a war going on. They both fight terrorism and

“The Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (PKK) contains one of the largest contingents of armed women militants in the world” (Duzgun, 2015). The movement is acclaimed as a foreign terrorist organisation by Turkey, and many western countries. Since the fight against the Islamic State in Syria, and Iraq this has constructed a superior condition between the United States, and the PKK, in exchanging for delisting the PKK as a terrorist organisation (Phillips & Berkell, 2016). Although the political understanding of the movement may differ in states, the enduring of the conflict can be outlined, with the second largest NATO-army on one side, and an armed national liberation movement on the other (Dirik, 2015).

Syria, a state located also in western Asia, in a region famously known as Middle East. Geographically, its’ location is bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Lebanon and Turkey. The state is currently in the middle of turmoil, torn between three sides, the Assad Regime, the dictatorial current President of Syria, the Syrian Opposition (Free Syrian Army and Jaysh Al-Islam), and ISIS. There are also Kurdistan armed forces mixed in the civil war, causing even more problem in Syria. To understand the geopolitical condition of Syria, we need to analyze the pre-civil war condition of Syria followed by ISIS infected condition.

With our continuing interest in the Middle East and Russia’s recent action in Crimea, Turkey has become one of the most important allies to the western world. However, their recent actions suggest that turkey is moving away from the west. Now that Turkey is starting to thrive independently, the west is no longer as appealing. Under the leadership of its current Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it is clear that Turkey is focusing more on its self-interest in the Middle East. Erdogan is a devout Muslim with a fundamentalist past who, now that he is in power, has cemented his role by dismantling the checks and balances of the Turkish political system. With public backing and changing economic condition that favor Turkey, Erdogan has been able to steer Turkey away from its secularist roots and away from western influence.

Freedom House, an organization that promotes the development of freedom and democracy globally, is especially concerned with Turkey’s future as a nation and believes there are threats to civil liberties in this nation. This institute rates countries based on its freedom status – and in its most recent report, Freedom House considered Turkey as partly free and experiencing declines. Between its annual reports, Turkey’s “political rights rating declined from 3 to 4 [and] its civil liberties rating declined from 4 to 5.” More importantly, however, Freedom House assigned a downward arrow to the nation because of President Erdoğan’s security crackdown following the attempted coup in July 2016. This uprising “led the government to declare a

In March of 2011, a civil war broke out in Syria due to “nationwide protests demanding President Assad’s resignation,” according to BBC News. In response to the protests, the government fought back with legitimate force, which only heightened the tensions in Syria. As of 2013, a new extremist jihadist group, the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq, rose up. In addition to the rise of this radical terrorist group, various other rebel forces, such as the Kurds, sprung up within, and outside of Syria—all with one common interest in mind: to fill the possible power vacuum if and when President Assad is taken out of power. Nations have also found themselves involved in the Syrian civil war, such as the United States and Turkey, who are

Turkey is in a unique position to influence the world due to its geographic location as well as the status of its membership within the international community; politically and economically. Turkey in its present form is not necessarily an ancient country, however as the successor to the Ottoman Empire following World War I it does contain a lengthy heritage as a world power. Turkey elects a president every five years under its democratic system, which promotes privatization and capitalism as two of its main economic practices. While the two aspects of a country’s foreign and domestic policy are typically correlated strongly, as a result of its position as the gateway between Europe and the Middle East Turkey’s policies have an even stronger impact on its neighboring countries. Turkey is one of the world’s largest economies but also one wrought with domestic issues that are inhibiting growth. Similarly, the conflict within Syria and Iraq impacted Turkey’s internal and external security situations, thereby increasing economic volatility and decreasing foreign investor confidence. Ultimately, Turkey represents a country in the upper third internationally regarding economic development albeit one that requires economic, security, and political reform to calm its volatility and create a stable leading nation.

Turkish political context is in a nutshell that state is everything. Turkish state exhibits a highly-centralized and interventionist characteristic. In parallel to statist tradition institutionalized with the establishment of Turkish Republic, the state has held all legitimacy tools in its hand. It has existed as a separate entity from the society, with separate interests. Regarding their

The most interesting aspect of the BBC Global News Podcast’s discussion on the conflict stirring near the Turkish-Syrian border was that of Turkey’s use of proxy forces in the province of Idlib. This was interesting because the proxy forces being used were that of the anti-Assad rebels, who had been fighting the Syrian and Russian governments for the past few years. This type of news coming out of an already volatile situation could only make matters worse, since the Russian military is definite on their airstrikes on the region. This type of story in global news today could become problematic, and lead to the Russian and Syrian governments deciding to close the de-escalation zones, which would put thousands of lives at risk. This story is even major in the global community, since it has the possibility of displacing more Syrians from the region.