Description
Turkiye has played a key role in the most recent Gaza deal and has become one of the four mediators as part of this: United States, Qatar, Egypt and Turkiye. The 2011 Syrian civil war, the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the Gaza deal in 2025 proved us the importance of how Turkiye aims to extend its political, economical and geopolitical powers in the region. Some scholars argue that it is Turkiye’s imperialism in the Middle East (Uysal, 2019) or it is the hegemonic projects in Turkiye’s foreign policy (Yalvac, 2016) that would explain Turkiye’s foreign policy. This paper expands these literatures and investigates the political economy and military industrial complex of Turkiye’s involvement in these three conflicts. This study utilizes a qualitative research and investigates beneficiaries (both state and capital groups) of these conflicts in these countries. The paper is important for two reasons: 1. It sheds light on the relationship between state and capital groups in military operations. 2. It explores the past military involvements of Turkiye to analyze the war and nation building ambitions in Gaza.
