حکمت داج لیری

Turkey is one of the most important Islamic countries in the West Asian region and Iran is considered as one of the most stable and powerful countries in the region; The two countries have long competed with each other for regional hegemony in the political and economic spheres, so they influence each other in different ways. The purpose of this study is to identify the geopolitical factors affecting the defense strategies of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Turkey and determine the extent of this impact on each other and researchers in this article seek to answer the question: what is the Geopolitical factors affecting the defense strategies between Islamic Republic of Iran and Turkey? This research has been done in terms of type, applied-development and in terms of method, descriptive-analytical with a mixed approach, and both library and field methods have been used for data collection, and data collection tools was, filing, Interviews and questionnaires were distributed and the statistical population of the study was 58 people and the sample population was considered as a total of 58 people.

The growing relations between Iran and Turkey do not meant alignment in the attitudes and orientations of the regional and foreign policies of two countries, and the strategic security- defense positions and views of two countries are different from their declared policy, Turkey is closely following Iran's missile development and nuclear activities program, and Turkey's military cooperation with the Zionist regime is a concern for countries in the region, In particular by Iran. Turkey's membership in NATO and its pro-Western stance, the construction of a missile shield on the border with Syria, and the support of Syrian opposition terrorists, given the level of Iran-Syria relations, have left Iran's relations with Turkey in a state of ambiguity. The main question of this study is: what are the components and indicators of security defense affecting Iran's relations with Turkey? The results of this study show that the nature and level of political relations between two countries affected by domestic needs, geopolitical conditions, quality and structure of the international system of political orientations and other variables, can be included from unity and convergence to strategic relationship, bilateral cooperation, competitive cooperation , Political severance, political tension, conflict, etc. . Turkey is an important and influential neighbor in Iran's political, security, defense, economic and cultural issues due to its territorial and border commonalities, the role of cultural factors, etc. Will be effective. This research is an applied-developmental type that has been prepared by descriptive-analytic-case-based method and with a mixed approach (quantitative and qualitative) and through in-depth interviews and distribution of questionnaires in the sample community to 55 strategic experts in the field. The defense and political forces of the Iranian Armed Forces have been completed, and two main factors and nineteen indicators have been approved.