Mehmet Rakipoğlu completed his undergraduate degree in the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Sciences at Sakarya University. Rakipoğlu, who has been continuing his PhD in the field of the Middle East Studies at Sakarya University's Middle East Institute since 2017, has been working as a Research Assistant in the International Relations Department of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Batman University from 2019 onwards. He has written many opinion papers, analyses and reports for national and foreign media and think tanks. His research interests include the foreign policy of the Gulf countries, Turkey’s Gulf Policy and political Islam, social movements in the Middle East, the relation between religion and politics, etc.
The recent normalization trend has started to take a stage in the Middle East. The United Arab Emirates (the UAE) and Bahrain formalized their relations with Israel in September 2020. In the following process, 2021 witnessed many normalization initiatives. In this sense, Turkey is at the center of the regional normalization trend. It has been discussed that Ankara plays a critical role in terms of increasing regional cooperation. Starting with
The latest diplomatic engagements between regional actors show that there is a new kind of alignment or power configuration/balance. It is likely to say that the recent developments and transformations in terms of balance of power in the Middle East, both at the regional and international levels, are indicating that the nature of politics has changed. Since then, Iraq, Egypt, and Jordan took a fresh position in regional politics. These
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The recent normalization trend has started to take a stage in the Middle East. The United Arab Emirates (the UAE) and Bahrain formalized their relations with Israel in September 2020. In the
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The latest diplomatic engagements between regional actors show that there is a new kind of alignment or power configuration/balance. It is likely to say that the recent developments and transformations in terms
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