The Approach of Turkey’s Parties toward Syrian Crisis (2011-2017)

 The paper deal with the approach of Turkey’s parties toward Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2017. From the early days of protest in Syria, Turkish government supported the Syrian opposition, encourage the Syrian government to implement reforms, and sharply criticized Syria for suppressing the opposition. Firstly, Turkey gave Syria some advices to introduce political and democratic reforms, however, it issued an ultimatum after the crisis had been intensified and violence erupted. The main question of the article is: what approach do Turkey’s parties adopt toward Syrian crisis? The hypothesis is: AKP and MHP supported Turkish military intervention in Syria and CHP, HDP and KP opposed it. Moreover, Turkey has been the subject of criticism globally because it gave its support to Syrian radical groups. In order to conduct the research, the author has used the descriptive-analytical method.