UNCHANGING SECURITY PARADOX IN TURKEY-GREECE RELATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE "CHANGING" INTERNATIONAL SECURITY PERCEPTIONS

Security has been the top of the basic elements regulating the relationships between the actors in the international system from the past to the present. In this context, providing a continuous and stable security environment has been seen as a basic purpose. For this purpose, security is of great value for each actor in the international system. However, the threat perception for this value has varied in the length of time. The threat perceptions had diversified with the effects of globalization in the post-Cold War era and in this context, the period of deepening and widening of security concept had raised. The changing security perceptions had accessed the milestone with 9/11 terrorist attacks. These changing in security perceptions has affected the international relations. Mutual threat perceptions in the relations between Turkey and Greece have existed as one of the most important factors determining the relations with a paradoxical manner. The purpose of this study is to examine the success level of circumstances oriented the elimination of security paradox having determined the bilateral relations at all times.