The motivations behind Turkey A.K Party political-military campaign in Ninawa Province of Iraq

AK Party taking power in Turkey and Falling of Saddam and vacuum of power in Iraq took place almost at same time; after that political and security developments, we have witnessed a deep and multilayer campaign orchestrated by Turkey in Northern Iraq. In this regard Erdogan has cited to P.K.K. threat (as the military justification), Misak Ahdi Milli (as historic one), Baghdad-Ankara in 1980s (as the legal one) and dispatched Turkish land forces to 15 KM to Mosul; also Turkey has targeted many time by 200 KM within Iraqi territories by airstrike and Drones. This article is trying to answer the main question: “Why after Saddam falling and arousing of ISIS, Turkey has increased its military-political activities in Northen Iraq?”. To this end we have researched dozens of English, Persian, Arabic and Turkish sources and have come to this conclusion Turkey by historic & identical motivations (emanating from Neo-Ottomanism Ideology), combined with Power-seeking preferences, has sought to expand its influence in Ninawa”. In other word, by using a descriptive-explanative method and utilizing Bayesian Realism as the theoretical framework, we have tried to illustrate whether Ankara is a greedy Actor or a Security Seeker in Ninawa.