TURKEY’S GEOSTRATEGIC INTERESTS IN THE CAUCASUS
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The disintegration of the U.S.S.R. brought about radical changes in Turkey’s foreign pol-icy environment. First of all, there is no longer a direct threat from its northern and northwest-ern neighbors. Whereby, instead of one neighbor, the Soviet Union, it has gained six new ones: Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. On the whole though, because of the rath-er complicated relations with its other regional neighbors, Greece, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, Turkey still faces demanding foreign policy challenges, which are having more of an impact on where Ankara places the emphasis in its foreign policy than on its new orientation choices.
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