The Kosovar Turks and Post-Kemalist Turkey foreign policy, socialisation and resistance conclusion

Abstract

This book aimed to explore the implications of the post-Kemalist changes in Turkey on Outside Turks communities in the specific case of Kosovar Turks. To this end, it has offered a norm-based analysis of the constitutive relationship between domestic politics and foreign policy formation and conduct. Moreovoer, it examined the foreign policy processes and mechanisms through which domestically initiated policies in Turkey effected and were implemented in the Outside Turks locality in Kosovo. Throught this, I elucidated the domestic norms guiding the ways in which Turkey has approached “Outside Turks”, traced the conduct of domestic norms-guided Outside Turks policy, and, finally. explored the implications of such policy for the Kosovar Turks. In the sections below, I draw conclusions from the analysis presented in this book and examine the main findings with reference to the research questions, then move on to the analysis of the implications of such scrutiny for the...