A Study of Turkey's Foreign Policy towards Syria under Islamists and Its Effects on IRI's Environmental Environment

The reciprocal relationship between Turkey and Syria until the early years of the 21st century has gone through three major disputes- namely the issue of Kurds, and the territorial dispute over Hatay, and sharing the water of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. However, as the political developments took place with the outbreak of the Syrian crisis in 2011, this country developed into a scene of international rivalries on which the regional powers acted their parts. Acting its part in the developments that took place in Turkey, the Administration made every effort to acquire a social prestige and secure the support of the West, carrying out different measures on different levels-political, economic, and military- against Syria. Applying the analytical-descriptive method with the use of library and documentary data collection, the present article plans to answer the question of "What effect does Turkey's foreign policy under Islamists towards the Syrian developments have on the security environment of the Islamic Republic of Iran?"