TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dursun-Özkanca,Oya
TI  - Turkey-West relations: the politics of intra-alliance opposition 
SN  - 9781108726726
AV  - JZ1649 .D87 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Western countries
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
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  -