ABSTRACT
This chapter examines historical and psychological constraints shaping the pattern of amity and enmity between Turkey and Armenia so as to understand the sustainability of the Justice and Development Party's (JDP's) policies concerning the Armenian issue. It defines the "regional security complexity" and "the pattern of amity and enmity" and elaborates the Caucasus in the general and Turkish Armenian relations. However, after the JDP's initiative to start a normalization process and the protocols, JDP was harshly criticized by the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) on the grounds that, as an Islamist party, the JDP was no longer adhering to the motto of "one nation, two states" which emphasized Turkishness and betrayed "brotherly Azerbaijan". The chapter focuses on the regional level of analysis to stress the regional actors as referent objects and to comprehend the local dynamics of interaction that operate in the realm of security.
