Turkish-Russian Relations During Erdogan’s Governance Period

Abstract

Bilateral relationship between Eurasia’s two prominent and long-standing actors, Turkey and Russia, have shown a lot of shifts during the last decade. The relations of the two countries gain more significance due to the fact that are the most influential and powerful actors in Eurasia by all historical, political, economic and military accounts. The state of the relations between the two countries, its character of being conflictual or co-operational has region wide implications. My dissertation will investigate the last decades and especially during Erdogan’s – Putin’s respectively governance period, by focusing on the foreign policy shifts of the two states and the affection to the relations between the two countries, Turkey and Russia, in the fields of politics, economics and security. No matter how many years will pass, Russian-Turkish relations are undoubtedly an issue that will not stop to concern the international community.