Aktéři zahraniční politiky Turecka a její „strategická hloubka“

The thesis focuses on the impact of Turkey's changing national identity under AKP leadership on the country's foreign policy and geopolitics in the Middle East. Using case studies that employ tracing methods, it analyzes Turkey's interactions with the Muslim Brotherhood, the participants in the Syrian civil war, and the Kurdish question. Furthermore, the thesis introduces a new analytical framework, namely the theory of flexible security architecture, which revises the traditional theory of regional security complexes using the concepts of heterarchy and critical geopolitics. This theory focuses on the religious, ethnic and political linkages between actors in the region and critically examines the state-centric approach to security policy. The results of the study provide a detailed understanding of the dynamics of changing national identity and its impact on geopolitical balances in the Middle East region.