Özet:

Identifying the place of Turkey in the hierarchy of the states within the world system is of importance from the point of view of foreign policy. There are different assessments about what this place is. The different world views that the people in the assessment are based on lead to different conclusions about the international position of Turkey. In this study, two intellectuals speaking/thinking within two different paradigms have been attempted to present approaches to the subject. It is thus desired to show that the international position is, first of all, a matter of perspective. These two different approaches have been tried to understand how they read the position of Turkey within the world system in the meanings they put on to history, geography, economy, culture and socio-political elements. The economic elements in the style of the assessment of Idea Başkaya are heavy, while Davutoğlu’s historical, cultural and philosophical facts appear to be put forward.

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