This article investigates the current modification in Turkey’s actor perception according to the Middle East’s changing dynamics. Clarifying the shift in Turkish foreign policy under the Justice and Development Party (JDP) and the emergent structural realities in the Middle East as a result of increasing agency of the violent non-state actors (VNSAs) in the aftermath of several Arab revolutions, the current article scrutinizes the adaption of Turkish foreign policy to these regional realities. In this context, to prove Turkey’s active orientation toward the recent regional environment, its exceptional engagement with one of the important VNSAs, namely the Free Syrian Army (FSA) or Syrian National Army (SNA), has been empirically examined. Within this background, the current resurrection of the VNSAs in the Middle East and regional-global actors’ reactions to this reality will also be analyzed. Afterward, Turkey’s unique and swift compliance with this reality and the consequent modification of its actor perception will be explored.

本文根据中东不断变化的动态调查了土耳其当前对演员认知的变化。澄清了正义与发展党 (JDP) 领导下的土耳其外交政策的转变，以及由于在几次阿拉伯革命之后暴力非国家行为者 (VNSA) 的代理权增加而导致中东出现的结构性现实，这篇文章仔细研究了土耳其外交政策如何适应这些地区现实。在这种情况下，为了证明土耳其对近期区域环境的积极态度，已经对它与重要的 VNSA 之一，即叙利亚自由军 (FSA) 或叙利亚国民军 (SNA) 的特殊接触进行了实证检验。在这样的背景下，还将分析当前中东 VNSA 的复活以及区域-全球参与者对这一现实的反应。之后，将探讨土耳其对这一现实的独特而迅速的遵守以及随之而来的对其行为者看法的改变。