Özet:

The Syrian Civil War, which began in the form of a limited popular movement in 2011, has soon been a development that has brought serious consequences in regional and global scale and has attracted a large number of actors. In this process, especially the regional states were unable to avoid the influence of the civil war and had to be involved in the issue. In this context, the Syrian Civil War has become the most fundamental issue of foreign policy for Turkey in the process. This study will analyze the foreign policy that Turkey has followed in the period prior to direct intervention in the country’s civil war. This analysis is carried out with the pre-acceptance that the assessment of the current Turkish foreign policy can only be possible with the correct understanding of the transformations that occur in the period before the direct intervention. Therefore, neoclassical realism has been defined as a theoretical framework for the analysis to be addressed in a comprehensive and comprehensive perspective. With the proposal that the systemic signals regarded as an independent variable are converted into foreign policy through local factors, i.e. intermediate variables, the neoclassic realism has been used to explain the transformations in Turkey’s foreign policy. By 2015, Turkey, which carried out an unfounded Syrian strategy, has, in accordance with external and internal developments, abandoned this approach and implemented its new strategy to be directly interfered. In the study, independent and interim variables that make up the infrastructure of this transformation and the external policy followed by the perception that the national security is threatened in the first place, the continuity of Turkish foreign policy has been discussed on the impact and determinability in this process.

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