İsrail’in 2011 Sonrası Bölgesel Vizyonunda Türkiye’nin Konumunun Kimlik-Güvenlik Penceresinden Analizi: Meydan Okuyucu Mu Yoksa Seyirci Mi?

Turkey’s engagement in Middle Eastern politics, significantly since the Arab Uprising, has continuously changed direction of decades-old Turkey–Israel relations. The existing literature elaborates on several aspects destabilising or normalizing relations between these two countries, but dimension Israel’s identity-based threat perception is yet to be revealed, despite Israel having long tried balance identities region. By asking whether Turkey challenges regional vision plays a bystander role, this study presents two-layered analysis Israel–Turkey While discussing cognitive essence post-2011 perspective that transformed ‘identity-based threat’ perceptions an uncertain environment, it locates region into Israel's understanding. Within aim, paper organized as follows. First, current summarized see not only short history also major trends studying Second, changing after Uprisings are examined identify continuities and changes. third part by Egyptian Syrian experiences Uprisings. In final part, commitment policies actors regarding Palestinian issue comparatively analysed make sense Israeli normalization with Gulf States re-normalization Turkey. going beyond challenger/bystander spectrum, claims position all cases shows characteristics ‘disobedient bystander’.