The College of Political Science at the University of Baghdad discussed the master’s thesis tagged Turkish foreign policy towards the Horn of Africa after 2002. It was submitted by the student “Ghassan Saadoun Khalil.”
This message focused on Turkish foreign policy towards the Horn of Africa after the Justice and Development Party took power in 2002, and how Turkey, since the nineties of the last century, began to establish itself among the emerging powers in the world, especially since the international system after the Cold War had changed completely, so it followed a policy A multi-dimensional foreign country independent of the West, and one of its orientations was the Horn of Africa due to the importance of its strategic location, and its control over energy transport corridors from the Arabian Gulf to Europe, America and Asia, in addition to that it was an important market for its industries and investments, and its desire to compete in the region economically, militarily, politically and culturally, and invested Turkey is driven by the conditions of the countries of the region such as famine, desertification, border disputes, and ethnic and tribal conflicts, and it provided humanitarian and medical assistance to them, and the religious factor played an important role in accepting the people of the region to the Turkish presence as a sister Muslim country, and the thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter deals with the importance of the region and its location The strategic focus on energy transfer methods, and then the beginnings of Turkish trends, and the historical and religious motives that Turkey possesses, while the second chapter deals with the nature of political, economic, security, military, regional and international changes, and the third chapter deals with the type of internal challenges such as the interventions of the Turkish army and the role of parties and organizations And trade unions, then the economic determinants, and we reviewed the challenges within the region itself, which are ethnic and tribal conflicts, famines and drought, then we talked about factors for the decline or strengthening of Turkish influence in the future in the Horn region, which depends on regional and international factors and circumstances..
At the end of the discussion, the researcher was awarded a master’s degree with a “very good, high” grade, wishing all our students success in their academic and practical lives.
