Turkey as a mediator between Bosnis-Herzegovina and Serbia during A.K.P era.

Abstract

Since 2002, with the arrival of the AKP in power, turkish foreign policy decisions undergone a rapid transformation through new set of foreign policy principles. Ahmet Davutoğlu is perceived as the most influential person on this new foreign policy line who believes that Turkey disposes a “strategic depth”. He tried to put the new foreign policy objectives in practice especially when he became Foreign Minister of Turkey in 2009. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the Balkan foreign policy of the AKP governments and Turkey’s mediation efforts there. We will try also to examine the general approach of the Turkish diplomacy on Balkans and the tools that Turkish government disposes in order to achieve her foreign policy goals. This research work is based on the analysis of AKP government’s new fundamental foreign policy principles and the way that Ankara offer her good services in mediation. More precisely our dissertation focuses on Turkey’s mediation efforts between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia and its results.