TY - BOOK ID - 137504838 TI - Turkey and the US in the Middle East PY - 2016 SN - 1350989541 1786720817 9781786720818 9781786730817 1786730812 9781784531881 178453188X PB - London DB - UniCat KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011. KW - Persian Gulf War, 1991. KW - Turkey KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Military relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137504838 AB - "Written by the former chief foreign policy advisor to the Turkish president and based on unprecedented access to official documents and communiques, this book gives the inside story of Turkish US relations from the first Gulf War, through debates on the Iraqi Kurdish question, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and into the present day. Using events in Iraq as the basis for a theoretical case study, Gurcan Balik argues that Turkey influenced US foreign policy on several key occasions, and that Turkish support was instrumental in the first intervention in Iraq. After Iraq's 1991 uprisings, however, Turkey's interests in the Middle East began to diverge from those of the US, and their relationship gradually deteriorated, evident in Turkey's refusal to open up its northern border to aid the US advance to Baghdad in 2003. Balik contends that an 'Iraq gap' then emerged, which has since had major implications for the Turkish economy and for the future of the Middle East.Turkey and the US in the Middle East contains hitherto unpublished primary source material, and is an essential addition to the scholarship of the period."--Bloomsbury Publishing. ER -