Understanding Turkish New Foreign Policy in the Framework of Ahmet Davutoglu's Strategic Depth Doctrine

The Turkish foreign policy has shown the paradoxical behavior in the regional and global crisis that has been ambiguous for the most thinkers. In fact, the new Turkish fluctuant foreign policy is a shift in the comparison whit the previous. This fluency in the Turkish foreign policy has been experienced whit a lot of regional and transregional actor like Iran, Syria, Iraq, Russia, EU and the U.S. The main question of this research is that, what is the foundations and principles of Ahmet Davutoglu's doctrine of strategic depth, as the main strategy of Justice and development party between 2002 by 2012 and what its effect on the advance of Turkish foreign policy goals? The findings of this research shows that the strategic depth doctrine try to expand the Turkish foreign policy perspective since Turkey transform to a high capability state whit a multidimensional interest and relation in the region and beyond that. In spite of its economic outcomes, but it leads to a paradoxical and conflicted behavior especially toward Middle East and Islam Word.