Turkey-Middle East Relations in the Cold War Era and the Great Powers/// So uk Sava D nemi Türkiye-Orta Do u Münasebetleri ve Büyük Gü ler

Because of the Soviet threat at the end of World War II, Turkey followed a British-American centered foreign policy. In order to maintain a presence in the Middle East Britain embraced Turkey as her close ally in the region. The United States followed “containment policy” against the Soviet goal to spread communism in the region. Turkey thus played a key role in the region as a British and American ally in the Middle East, but one which destroyed its relations with the other regional countries, like Egypt, which was under Soviet influence. This papercovers Turkey’s relations with the Middle Eastern countries during the Cold War and examines the influence of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union on Turkey’s Middle East policy.