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THE FOREIGN POLICY OF TURKEY ıN THEMıDDLE EAST AND THE ACTUALıTY OFATATÜRK'S THOUGHT: FROM THE PACT OFSAADABAD TO THE PEACE PROCESSProf. Dr. Robert ANCIA UX*Turkey belongs to four regional under systems: the Eastern Mediterranean,the Middle East, the Balkans and the Caucasus-Central Asia(since the implosion of Soviet Union). It is moreover an essential landand air crossway between Europe and Asia, and, by sea, between Russiaand the Mediterranean.This capital geostrategic position of Turkey brings normally thegreat powers to bring pressure över Turkey in order to make it enter intheir alliance system.The management of Turkey's foreing policy appears then as a verycomplex matter and is essentially defined by some variables as the stateof international relations, and by three stable parameters: the political andeconomical integration of Turkey in the Western World; the need to preservethe sovereignity and the territorial integrity of the Republie; thewillingness to develop friendly relations with the neighbouring states andto improve regional security and stability in the peripheric areas in orderto secure its security and to be able to concentrate on the accomplishmentof its project for society.The end of the cold war being a source of geopolitical mutationsTurkey is confronted to a fundamentaly instable political environementwhich is likely to create e threat for its security. Threated by the turmoilsthat wave at the same time the four regional under systems to which it isbound, Turkey is fundamentally in position to be set up as a stabilizingelement as it was under the rule of Atatürk. The current situation beingone of the most critical and uncertain of the seventy fıve years of existenceof the Turkish Republie, an inereasing number of political responsi-* Üniversite Libre de Bruxelles.601