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• No references and citations are provided for these publicly discussed but not published arguments.
• For some examples see: Mark Parris, “Allergic Partners: Can US-Turkish Relations Be Saved?”, Turkish Policy Quarterly, Vol 4, No. 1 (Spring 2005); Soner Çagaptay, “Where Goes the US-Turkish Relationship?”, Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Fall 2004), pp. 43- 52; Gareth Jenkins, “Muslim Democrats in Turkey”, Survival, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 45-66; Joshua W. Walker, “Reexamining the US-Turkish Alliance”, The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Winter 2007-2008), pp. 93-109.
• Michael Rubin, “A Comedy of Errors: American Turkish Diplomacy and the Iraq War”, Turkish Policy Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2005); Michael Gunter, “The US-Turkish Alliance in Disarray”, World Affairs, Vol. 167, No. 3 (2005), p. 113-123.
• Murat Yeşiltaş, “Soft Balancing in Turkish Foreign Policy: The Case of 2003 Iraq War”, Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring-Summer 2009), pp. 25- 51; Judith Kelley, “Strategic Non-cooperation as Soft Balancing: Why Iraq was not Just about Iraq?”, International Politics, Vol. 42, No. 2 (June 2005), pp. 153-173.
• For an evaluation of the JDP and its distinctiveness on the tactical level see: Hasan B. Yalçın, “Yeni Dönemde Türkiye’nin Temel Dış Politika Eğilim ve Davranışları: Yapısal Realist Bir Okuma”, Bilgi, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2011), pp. 35-60.
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• Keir Lieber and Alexander Gerard, “Waiting for Balancing: Why the World Is Not Pushing Back”, International Security, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Summer 2005), pp. 109-139; Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth, “Hard Times for Soft Balancing”, International Security, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Summer 2005), pp. 72-108.
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• Abdullah Gül, “Turkey’s Role in a Changing Middle East Environment”, Mediterranean Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 1, (Winter 2004), p. 5.
• Erickson, “Turkey as Regional Hegemon-2014”, p. 36.
• Quoted in Fiona Hill and Ömer Taşpınar, “Turkey and Russia: Axis of Excluded?”, Survival, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Spring 2006), p. 88.
• Bill Park, “Between Europe, the United States and the Middle East: Turkey and European Security in the Wake of the Iraq Crisis”, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol. 5, No.3, (2004), p. 499.
• Hill and Taşpınar, “Turkey and Russia: Axis of Excluded?”, p. 87. 36 Ibid., p. 82. 37 Ibid., p. 86.
• Ahmet Davutoğlu, interview with the author, İstanbul, 27 May 2006. 39 Ibid.
• Bila, Sivil Darbe Girişimi ve Ankara’da Irak Savaşları, p. 266.
• Murat Yetkin, Tezkere: Irak Krizinin Gerçek Öyküsü, Ankara, Remzi Kitabevi, 2004, p. 133.
• Ahmet Davutoğlu, interview with the author, İstanbul, 27 May 2006.
• Hill and Taşpınar, “Turkey and Russia: Axis of Excluded?”.
• Ali Balci and Murat Yeşiltaş, “Turkey’s New Middle East Policy: The Case of the Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Iraq’s Neighboring Countries”, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Summer 2006), pp. 18-38. 45 Ibid.
• “Gül: Pandora’nın Kutusu açılmamalı”, NTVMSNBC, 04 January 2003.
• Ahmet Davutoğlu, interview with the author, İstanbul, 27 May 2006.
• Yetkin, Tezkere: Irak Krizinin Gerçek Öyküsü, p. 100.
• “Powell: Sıra Size Geldi”, Radikal, 27 January 2003.
• “Gül: ABD Stratejik Müttefikimiz”, Hürriyet, 13 January 2003.
• Yetkin, Tezkere: Irak Krizinin Gerçek Öyküsü, p. 100. 52 Ibid., p. 173.
• Deniz Bölükbaşı, 1 Mart Vakası: Irak Tezkeresi ve Sonrası, İstanbul, Doğan Kitap, 2007.
• Yetkin, Tezkere: Irak Krizinin Gerçek Öyküsü, p. 172. 55 Ibid., p. 125.
• Bölükbaşı, 1 Mart Vakası: Irak Tezkeresi ve Sonrası.
• Kelley, “Strategic Non-cooperation as Soft Balancing”, p. 159.
• Ahmet Davutoğlu, interview with the author, İstanbul, 27 May 2006.
• Bölükbaşı, 1 Mart Vakası: Irak Tezkeresi ve Sonrası. Yetkin, Tezkere: Irak Krizinin Gerçek Öyküsü, p. 101.
• Aylin Şeker Görener, “Turkey’s Relations with the Divided West: Changing Parameters”, Turkish Policy Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2005), p. 6.
• Bila, Sivil Darbe Girişimi ve Ankara’da Irak Savaşları.
• Park, “Between Europe, the United States and the Middle East”, p. 500.
• “Jest Yoksa Tezkere de Yok”, Radikal, 25 February 2003.
• Görener, “Turkey’s Relations with the Divided West: Changing Parameters”, p. 3.
• Josef Joffe, “Gulliver Unbound: Can America Rule the World?”, paper presented at Center for Independent Studies, 20th Annual Conferences, 5 August 2003.
• Park, “Between Europe, the United States and the Middle East”, p. 497.