Abstract:

This study first examines the Turkish-American relations dating back to the 19th century on the context of historical process based on the conflict and cooperation in the sense of politics, economy and military. Turkish-American relations with nearly two centuries of history have often been improved by the shadow of regional and global events. The relations between the two countries remained under the reactions of conjectural events. That’s why the study tries to depict how the development of Turkish-American relations in the historical process is on the axis of cooperation and conflict. The United States also follows a proactive foreign policy towards Turkey's near geography. The study advocates that the nature of the relationship between the actors has been determined by the regional and cyclical interests and policies of the USA.  It is a fact that USA has  not only dilemma of cooperation and conflict with Turkey but also with other regional actors due to conjectural reasons. However, despite the case of overlapping of interest conflicts, Turkey and USA has been successful to keep in relationship.  In this context, Turkey and the United States, have been improved mutually cooperation by acting together in regional and international problems. In order to check the accuracy of the claims put forward in the study, specific cases like “Missionary Activities”, “USSR Hazard”, “Truman Doctrine”, ”Korean War“, “Missile Crisis”, “Cyprus İssue”, “March 1” and “The Hood Event” have been focused. It was concluded that both countries were in conflict in the era of crisis whereas they had cooperation in the rest of cases.

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