Ege Jeopolitiği, Hasret Comak,Burak Şakir Şeker,Dimitrios Ioannidis, Editör, Nobel Yayın Dağıtım, Ankara, ss.865-878, 2020
The governmental profiles of both Turkey and Greece have been discussed and
referred to as important determinants of emerging policies. SYRIZA, as a Greek party of
the radical left and progress, was considered very promising to challenge
settled approaches in politics in Europe and this final manoeuvre can be seen as
a symbol for that. So, is it possible to argue that SYRIZA followed a different path in the geopolitical
orientations and the foreign policy of Greece? b) What was the standpoint of
SYRIZA about Turkish-Greek relations and the geopolitical significance
of the Aegean Sea? In any attempt to examine the geopolitical considerations of
state governments, geopolitical terminology which is preferred or used in the
discourses of state leaders or leading political figures shall be referred to carefully. This paper argues that the SYRIZA-led government’s geopolitical
considerations show no serious change - compared to its
predecessors - despite the left-ideological origins of SYRIZA, its critical
stance and the contempt that SYRIΖΑ had for power politics in international
relations or geopolitical analysis in the years before the elections of 2015,
when it was a party of left opposition, activism and intensive critique.