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    The Intentions and Capabilities of Turkey as a Regional Power: a Structural Realist Analysis (2012-2014)
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2015) Çelik, Nihat; Yfantis, Konstantinos
    With the post-Cold War developments Turkey found a suitable environment to assert itself as a regional leader in the Balkans and Middle East. In this vein mediation became a tool for advancing Turkey's regional role with the Justice and Development Party rule that started in 2002. The aim of this study is to show Turkey's motivations in acting as a mediator while highlighting its capabilities and limits in the aforementioned regions based on case-studies of Turkey's mediation initiatives. It will be argued that Turkey as an emerging middle-power faces important limitations with regards to material capabilities and also resistance from regional and global actors against its regional leadership role.