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Turkey's recent foreign policy has led to fractious relations with countries in the Middle East and the US. 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, the author 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. The author contends that an 'Iraq gap' then emerged, which has since had major implications for Turkey's security and for the future of the Middle East.

TURKEY--FOREIGN RELATIONS--USA --- USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--TURKEY --- TURKEY--MILITARY RELATIONS--USA --- USA--MILITARY RELATIONS--TURKEY --- PERSIAN GULF WAR, 1991 --- IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011