Abstract:

Since its establishment, the Republic of Turkey has defined the establishment of close relations with the Western coalition and the Western states as a main trend in its foreign policy. The basis of this approach is the belief that Turkey, along with this strategy, can be among developed states and remove threats. The ultimate point of implementation of this strategy was the Menderes period. Menderes and the Democratic Party, who took over the government after the single party power, considered it vital to act together with the United States in its foreign policy and shaped its practices in this context. Menderes, on the one hand, attempted to increase his influence on domestic politics, on the other hand, conducted his foreign policy on behalf of his own and the country’s political backdrop. Menderes, who has an important influence in the formation of the outer policy conditions of the later period, has been able to its goal by using persistent methods and has been able to make Turkey part of the Western bloc. This study will conduct an analysis of the foreign policy of the Menderes period, which is the starting point of participation within the Western alliance, the clearest movement logic of Turkish foreign policy. For this, first the international policy conditions of the period will be discussed and then the Menderes' foreign policy approach will be examined. Later, the external policy practices in the process of NATO membership and the establishment of the Baghdad Pact, which can be considered as concrete indicators of Menderes' foreign policy, will be evaluated. Finally, the work will be completed by the proposal for the discussions on the Western-based foreign policy of Turkey to be carried out on the basis of the work on the period.

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