Azerbaijan-Iran Relations under the Shadow of Pan-Turkist Challenges
Diğer, ss.1-18, 2024
- Yayın Türü: Diğer Yayınlar / Diğer
- Basım Tarihi: 2024
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-18
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Outcomes of the 2nd Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia that broke out in September 2020, have dramatically shaken geopolitics of the South Caucasus to the detriment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. First, the victorious Republic of Azerbaijan has replaced its cautious approach to Tehran with a more assertive foreign policy. Second, Azerbaijan deepened its alliance with Türkiye. Third, the Moscow Declaration of November 10, 2020 that ended armed clashes between the belligerents paved the way for establishing a land corridor – Zangezur – connecting Türkiye to the Caspian Sea, and then to the Turkic states in Central Asia. Moreover, in the last decade Türkiye under the leadership of President Erdoğan has strived for cultivating economic, cultural and political ties with the Turkics states, which is crowned with the formation of the Organization of Turkic states in November 2021. Finally, recent developments emboldened the flourishing nationalist movements among the Iranian Azerbaijanis in the northwest of Iran. Combined together, the recent developments are perceived among the Iranian elite as a new wave of Pan-Turkist challenge. Iranian perceptions of, and responses to the so-called Pan-Turkist challenge will be effective in the future of the regional security complexes in the South Caucasus and Central Asia. In this respect, Iran's relations with Azerbaijan will be pivotal, and will illustrate Iranian strategy with regard to the Caucasus and Central Asia. That is why this paper aimed at studying the evolution of Tehran-Baku relations after the 2nd Karabakh war.