Security Linkage and Crisis-Declining in Iran-Turkey Relations

پژوهش نامه ایرانی سیاست بین الملل

Article 2, Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2017, Pages 20-37   

Document Type: مقالات

DOI: 10.22067/jipr.v5i2.52456

Authors

barati barati; vahid sinaee^* ; seyed ahmad fatemi nejad

ferdowsi university of mashhad

Abstract

Abstract
In recent years, Iran-Turkey relations have experienced different situations from friendship to rivalry and even enmity. The ambivalence has raised various explanations among observers in international relations and foreign policy. This article aims to assess durability of Iran-Turkey relations regardless of their disputes. In other word, the main question here is why Iran and Turkey have not been subject to a long-term tension despite their critical rivalries in recent years. We hypothesize that linkage between securitizing and destabilizing processes affecting both has obliged the two countries to prevent falling into crisis and welcome cooperation. It seems that regional security complex theory could be helpful here. In this regard, six factors including geographical neighborhood, model of friendship and hostility, existence of two influential actors, relative independence, security interdependence, cultural-civilizational relationships, and economic relations are examined in Iran-Turkey relations. Findings show that their avoidance of deepening mutual tensions is due to the same location of the two countries in the security complex.

Keywords

Iran; Turkey; Regional security complex; Geographical proximity; Security interdependence

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