KarabakhThe Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is one of the longest-standing international crises. that has had a relatively long origin. It took a long time fromIt officially started on February 20, 1988 toand lasted until May 12, 1994, with thewhen a cease-fire was signed, and involved a military confrontation between Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, but, as a matter of fact it is still being fought as the prospects forof peace have not been visible on its view so farfulfilled. The Republic of Azerbaijan, as the most important actor in the geopolitical region of the South Caucasus, after theobtaining its independence, confrontedfaced the geopolitical crisis ofensued from the occupation of the land due toat the territorial expansionhands of Armenia, a crisis that. It later becameturned into an international throughcrisis due to the intervention of some external powers. In the meantime, Turkey, as an ally of the Republic of Azerbaijan, has always tried to maintain its position among regional and trans-regional actors through theits intervention in the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis. In the present study, based on a geopolitical theoretical framework, and with a descriptive-analytic research method, we seek to answer this question: Which is the approach taken by Turkey towards the Karabakh crisis after coming power of the Justice and development partyDevelopment Party came to power in 2003? The findings of research show that Turkey's approach, after coming the power of the Justice and development party andthis research show that, by following the strategic depth'strategic depth' doctrine, influenced by the policy of détente withof its neighbours and neo-Ottomanism, Turkey has followed the path of advocacy of Western policies toward independence and influence over the South Caucasus and Karabakh regions in pursuit of its national interests.

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