Research Article
Identity and Foreign Policy: Turkey’s Support of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.31-3-2022.2320955, author={Adilah Hasna Khairunisa}, title={Identity and Foreign Policy: Turkey’s Support of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Risk Studies, ICONIC-RS 2022, 31 March-1 April 2022, South Jakarta, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICONIC-RS}, year={2022}, month={8}, keywords={turkey azerbaijan nagorno-karabakh collective identity foreign policy}, doi={10.4108/eai.31-3-2022.2320955} }- Adilah Hasna Khairunisa
Year: 2022
Identity and Foreign Policy: Turkey’s Support of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
ICONIC-RS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.31-3-2022.2320955
Abstract
The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh broke out again in 2020 and is considered the largest in history. The government there has been run by ethnic Armenians since 1994 and wants to separate from Azerbaijan. As a neighbor of the two countries, Turkey has also shown its continued attitude towards this conflict. Turkey took a firm stance by giving its support to Azerbaijan. The Turkish parliament even approved the policy of the plan to send peacekeepers to the border in Nagorno-Karabakh. This research aims to find out why Turkey is increasingly giving support to Azerbaijan in this conflict. This research is qualitative explanatory using constructivism theory based on collective identity. The argument in this research is the collective identity between the two countries in terms of religion, ethnicity, and language, influences the foreign policy taken by Turkey to support Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Even the homogeneous collective identity of Turkey and Azerbaijan is referred to as One Nation, Two States.