THE IMPACT OF GEOPOLITICS ON IRAQ-TURKEY RELATIONS AFTER 2003

Abstract

     The geographical neighborhood between Iraq and Turkey has created compatible interests at times, and contradictory at other times between the two countries. The concordant interests gave rise to relations of cooperation and mutual understanding, just as the contradictory ones raised concerns and problems between the two neighbors Despite the privacy of the ties of history, religion and culture between Iraq and Turkey for a long time, contemporary developments in Iraqi-Turkish relations have been characterized by distinction at times and lukewarm at other times, and these contradictions in the relations between the two parties represent the accumulations of the two policies: external and internal for both countries since the establishment of the modern Turkish Republic in In 1923, the approach taken by Turkey towards the new regime that emerged in Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime through the intervention of America, and its position was shaped by the influence of regional perceptions, bilateral relations and Iraqi internal politics. The purpose of the study is to know the internal, regional, and international variables of both countries and the effect of those variables on the foreign policy of both countries. As well as knowing the common factors or issues and the relationship between the two countries, including the water issue, the Kurdish issue, the Turkmen minority, and other political, economic and security issues. As well as the future vision of the Turkish-Iraqi relations under these circumstances.