ABSTRACT

Cyprus has featured prominently on Turkey’s foreign policy agenda in recent years. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has weaved this long-standing issue into a broader narrative of ‘geographical imagination’. Cyprus policy has thus reflected the AKP’s socio-political vision of a ‘Yeni Türkiye’ (New Turkey), first articulated nearly a decade ago, in which well-entrenched narratives about national identity and the Cyprus conflict are central. Against this backdrop, Cyprus has been leveraged in the twin interests of AKP survival (boosting incumbency through nationalist appeals) and Turkey’s regional power aspirations. The present article offers a timely survey of Turkey’s Cyprus policy over a 15-year period from 2002 (when the AKP rose to power) until the failure of the negotiation talks on Cyprus in Crans-Montana, Switzerland in July 2017. In so doing, the article charts the important continuities as well as the key markers of transition in Ankara’s policy towards Cyprus under the AKP.

摘要

近年来，塞浦路斯在土耳其的外交政策议程中占有突出地位。执政的正义与发展党 (AKP) 将这个长期存在的问题编织成更广泛的“地理想象”叙事。因此，塞浦路斯政策反映了 AKP 的“Yeni Türkiye”（新土耳其）社会政治愿景，该愿景于近十年前首次提出，其中关于民族认同和塞浦路斯冲突的根深蒂固的叙述是核心。在此背景下，塞浦路斯被利用以实现 AKP 生存（通过民族主义诉求提高在位率）和土耳其的地区强国抱负的双重利益。本文及时调查了从 2002 年（正发党上台）到克莱恩蒙塔纳塞浦路斯谈判失败的 15 年期间土耳其的塞浦路斯政策，