ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses Turkish policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the last two decades. It also analyses the changes in the policy by touching upon the impact of the international context, regional developments, domestic inputs and the changes in the nature of foreign policy-making process. The chapter focuses on the role of international determinants and regional factors and of the changes in the nature of foreign policy-making in Turkey. The state of Turkish-Israeli relations depicts best how the priorities of Turkish foreign policy changed in the new century. The end of the Cold War, the Gulf War and the Peace Process affected the dynamics of politics in the Middle East, and Turkey was no exception. The Gulf War and the aftermath dramatically affected the Palestinian Israeli conflict and Turkey's policy towards this issue. During the Gulf War, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) was in support of Iraq and its credibility shrank in the eyes of public opinion in several countries.
