Turkey’s Identity Crisis and Its Reflections on the Turkish-Russian Relations
Turkey’s Identity Crisis and Its Reflections on the Turkish-Russian Relations

Summary/Abstract: This study examines Turkey’s western identity constructed during the early republican era following the westernization movements in Turkey that started more than 200 years ago, the identity crisis occurred in Turkey with its western identity losing power after the cold war and its reflections on Turkish-Russian relations. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that Turkey, a ‘torn country’ according to Huntington’s popular definition, pragmatically built interest-based relations with Russia, another torn country seen considered as an outsider by the West, trying to reconstruct its identity owing to domestic dynamics after facing with the identity crisis. This study demonstrates that Turkey developed its relations with Russia as a regional power by reading TurkishRussian relations through the lenses of Huntington’s torn state syndrome.

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