Cooperation and Competition in Turkish and Irani Foreign Policy Towards Iraqi crisis (since2003) and Syria crisis (since2011)

Abstract

This study attempts to highlight the dynamics of cooperation and competition in the foreign policy of Turkey and Iran towards the regional crises in the Arab region, starting from the Iraqi crises since 2003 and Syrian crisis since 2011 where these crises formed a starting point for cooperation and competition between the two countries.

 A number of internal and external determinants play an important role in explaining the aspects of Turkish-Iranian cooperation and competition towards the Iraqi and Syrian crises .

If common security concerns about external support for the Kurdish state project in the Middle East as well as mutual economic interdependence are important variables in explaining the cooperation between the two countries , the desire for regional hegemony with the imperial heritage which the two sides possess and their availability on the components of regional power , are important variables in explaining the aspects of competition between the two States .