Soft power and the challenges of private actors: Turkey - Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) relations and the rising role of businessmen in Turkish Foreign Policy

When the new Iraqi constitution was proclaimed in 2005, Kurds obtained the opportunity to build a de facto state in the north of Iraq. As a neighbour state Turkey has involved in the infrastructure construction of Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) through the activities of businessmen although the f...

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Main Author: Merve Özdemirkıran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-Orient 2016-03-01
Series:European Journal of Turkish Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejts/5268