EVALUATION OF SYRIAN CIVIL WAR AND ITS GLOBAL EFFECTS IN TERMS OF POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

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Starting with the self-immolation of a Tunisian young man on 17 December 2010, the mass movements, as a result of a domino effect, has spread throughout the Arab world that have been plagued by similar problems. Events which took place in Tunisia and later in Egypt and Libya have affected the Middle East and finally led to a civil war ongoing in recent years in Syria. In this study, the civil war in Syria, interest conflicts of regional and global power centers emerging with the effect of this civil war and new political entities have been examined. The study has employed the case study approach and descriptive research method, both of which included among qualitative research methods. As a result of the Syrian Civil War, thousands of people have lost their lives and millions of people have been displaced. Benefiting from the political void caused by the effect of the civil war, many armed organizations have entered a great and unending power struggle. Using the terrorist organizations that came to the fore as a pretext, European countries and other countries like the USA, Russia and Iran have intervened with arms. Powerful countries began to create new policies in line with their ideologies to fulfill their objectives over the Middle East. A war environment has been fueled using the ethnic and sectarian differences as pretext. Asia’s major powers, Russia and Iran, try all their best to reshape the borders that will be drawn in accordance with their own interests. Western powers constitute the other side of this struggle. As a result of mass movements happening in the Middle East and wars, a new political geography concept is emerging in the region.

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Syria , the Middle East , civil war , Arab Spring , energy

International Journal of Geography and Geography Education

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International Journal of Geography and Geography Education