TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dursun-Özkanca,Oya
TI  - Turkey-West relations: the politics of intra-alliance opposition 
SN  - 9781108726726
AV  - JZ1649 .D87 2019
U1  - 327.5610182/1 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
KW  - Turkey
KW  - European Union
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Western countries
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Framework of itra-alliance opposition -- Turkish foreign policy in the western Balkans -- The Turkish veto over the EU-NATO security exchange -- The EU-Turkey deal on refugees -- Turkey's energy policies -- Turkish rapprochement with Russia in security -- Turkey's foreign policy on Syria and Iraq -- Turkey and the West : What Next?
N2  - "Turkey's strategic geopolitical positioning as a bridge between Europe, the Middle East, the Balkans, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and South Caucasus, and its religious, cultural, and historical affiliations with countries in its immediate neighborhood, make it an indispensable actor in European and transatlantic security. In the early 1950s, Turkey was so eager to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that it fought in the Korean War and incurred heavy casualties. Subsequently, it has traditionally been well embedded in Western security infrastructures"--
ER  -