Analysis Of The 1990s, Israel And Turkey Military Alliance

February 1996, Israel and Turkey announced the establishment of military alliances. The establishment of military alliances is the result of demand for the interests of both sides. Since the beginning of the founding of Israel, conflict with Arab countries has not been stopped. The outbreak of various wars with the neighboring Arab countries is not effective to solve the complex relationship, Islamic countries in the siege of Israel's national sense of insecurity have not been able to eliminate; Due to historical reasons, there are a greater or lesser extent territorial disputes and ethnic disputes between Turkey and neighboring countries, Although Turkey is the Islamic countries, but after the founding of the Republic of the choice of a national strategy to move closer to the West, the Arab countries lost the understanding and trust, Turkey has been seeking a secular country road construction,there is always a barrier between Turkey and the Arab countries. In order to force Turkey to make concessions on the territorial issue, It's neighboring countries continue to use Turkey's national issues to exert pressure on the ethnic issue. This prompted Turkey trying to find a reliable ally; At the same time, the United States have been achieving its strategic interests in the Middle East, strengthening its control over the Middle East region, So it creates all conditions for military alliances. All along, the United States are staunch supporters of Israeli state and protector, the United States see Israel's survival as related to the immediate interests of the United States, Israel became the United States' most reliable ally. Turkey has extremely important strategic location in the Middle East—among Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The cooperation between Turkey and the United States help the United States use Turkey's special strategic location to achieve It's interests. At the same time, the Turkish secular and democratic choice of the national development path in line with the United States in the world, has consistently advocated the concept of governance of the United States in the Middle East,Turkey also needs the American's support to solve it's national external and internal problems. For those reasons, Turkey and Israel military alliance come into being. At the begnning, the military alliance had a significant impact to the Middle East international relations and had caused panic in some countries in the Middle East region. The Arab countries come to shelve the internal disputes and seeking mutual understanding and support with each other. However, Turkey and Israel military alliance is not to achieve its aggressive and offensive, but to solve their own problems and to form an alliance to ensure its own security needs. Fundamentally speaking, the military alliance is more in order to show its deterrent force, to increase power in solving their own problems. In the early years of the military alliance, Turkey and Israel has played a negative role in easing the situation in the Middle East, However, with the passage of time and warming the overall situation in the Middle East, the military alliance is not became a barrier or a threat for the Middle East peace process as some Islamic countries thought. Particularly as the whole Middle East region peace process forward, the external environment of Turkey and Israel began to improve a positive direction, the military alliance in the military factor begin weakening, the cooperation on education, economy, science, technology and culture has depended, and also has become an important part of relations between the two countries.