Regional security in the middle east area in the period of the cold war. Turkey's contribution to regional security

AuthorGabriela-Nicoleta Dragne
PositionPH-D, Faculty of History, History Field, Doctoral School of the University, Valahia Târgoviste
Pages33-37
AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, http://univagora.ro/jour/index.php/aijjs
ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677
No. 2 (2019), pp. 33 - 37
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REGIONAL SECURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AREA IN THE
PERIOD OF THE COLD WAR. TURKEY'S CONTRIBUTION TO
REGIONAL SECURITY
G-N. DRAGNE
Gabriela-Nicoleta DRAGNE
PH-D, Faculty of History, History Field, Doctoral School of the University ,,Valahia”
Târgoviște
Correspondence address: Eremia Grigorescu, no. 25, bl.45B, Sc.C, Ap.51, Ploiești, Prahova,
Romania
Email: dragne.gabriela.nicoleta@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The alliance belt between Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Iraq led to the creation of the
political-military bloc nicknamed the Baghdad Pact, which aimed to limit Soviet
expansionism to the warm seas and the Gulf and to ensure peace and security in the Middle
East region.
Another trio of non-Arab states in the East: Turkey, Israel and Iran formed an
influential military alliance in the late 1950s under the name of the Phantom Pact or the
Peripheral Alliance in order to coordinate the activity of the three secret intelligence services,
to coordinate their activities. express their anti-Soviet stance and maintain regional security.
Equally, Turkey's involvement in regional affairs played an essential role. Today, the
presence of the UN in the area, is facing a new danger of our times: terrorism.
KEYWORDS: military alliance, expansionism, regional security, terrorism.
INTRODUCTION
The Baghdad Pact, whose official name is "Treaty of the Middle East", was founded on
February 24, 1955 between Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran and the United Kingdom, which
acceded in 1958, renamed the Central Treaty Organization. or Cento after the Iraqi
withdrawal on March 24, 1959. Another country in the Middle East with which Turkey had
close traditional ties was Israel. Being the first Islamic country to recognize the Jewish state
of Israel on March 18, 1949, less than a year after the official proclamation of Israel's
independence, on May 14, 1948, Turkey's changing relations with Israel reached the climax of
an alliance with Israel. trilateral security in 1958, nicknamed the "Peripheral Alliance". The
two pacts are part of the international alliances of the western camp in the context of the Cold
War.
THE CHALLENGES OF THE ARABIC AND TRANSATLANTIC DIPLOMATION
POLICIES
During the rule of Menderes, Turkey initiated an assertive foreign policy in the region
and to some extent renewed its importance in the Arab and Islamic world. Turkey's foreign

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