Introduction
Ottoman Empire has been a kind of “security community” by covering most Islamic countries in Middle East region for a long time. So it can be said that Ottoman Empire has achieved Karl W. Deutsch’s economic-orientated “security community” model in the context of political scene in their age.
Approximately 49 states emerged from Ottoman Empire ruins, and they have been mostly colonized by the Western countries after the World War I. But they have gained their independence after the Second World War.
Nevertheless, after the independence, bilateral and multilateral relationship has been low level with both each other and especially Turkey which is the successor of Ottoman Empire.
There are many reasons, but most salient ones is that Turkey has turned his face to the West and refrained from developing close relationship with the other Islamic countries in sake of Westernization.
Interregional relationship also was low level between Middle Eastern countries because of the...
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Birdişli, F., Karadağ, A. (2016). Desecuritization of the Relationship Between Turkey and Other Islamic Countries in the Middle East. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2805-1
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