İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi IX. Uluslararası Orta Doğu Sempozyumu: Orta Doğu’da Yeni Jeopolitik Kırılmalar ve Egemenlik Sorunları (15-16 Ekim 2024), İstanbul, Türkiye, 15 - 16 Ekim 2024, sa.145, ss.145-150, (Özet Bildiri)
Türkiye-Syria relations have followed a fluctuating course since the Cold War
period. During the Cold War, there were tensions due to the policies pursued towards
different sides and the two countries came to the edge of war in 1957. Since the 1970s,
water-sharing issues and terrorism and security concerns have been the determining
factors in relations. With the Adana Memorandum signed in 1998, the two countries
cooperated in the fight against terrorism. Diplomatic and economic relations
strengthened in the 2000s. However, the civil war, which started in Syria in 2011, soured
relations again. Historically, Türkiye and Syria have tended to rapprochement when
regional crises and larger problems have emerged, while bilateral problems have
resurfaced in the absence of crises. Nowadays, in the context of Israel's occupation of
Palestine, attempts for a period of normalization have begun again.