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İSLAM İŞBİRLİĞİ TEŞKİLATI’NIN 55 YILLIK BAŞARISIZLIĞI

Year 2025, Issue: 11, 1 - 19, 25.06.2025

Ali Sarıhan

https://doi.org/10.53507/akademikdusunce.1580559

Abstract

1948 Arap-İsrail Savaşı, 1957 Süveyş Kanalı Krizi ve 1967 Altı Gün Savaşı Ortadoğu’nun Müslüman Devletleri ile İsrail arasında var olan güvenlik ikileminin sonucu olarak ortaya çıkmıştır. İsrail’in tüm bu savaşlarda Müslüman devletlere karşı elde ettiği kesin askeri zafer bir taraftan iki taraf arasındaki güvenlik ikilemini derinleştirirken, diğer taraftan Müslüman ulusları birliklerini ve İsrail’e karşı konumlarını güçlendirmek için İslam İşbirliği Teşkilatı’nı kurmaya sevk etmiştir. Kuruluş amacı itibariyle İslam İşbirliği Teşkilatı her ne kadar İsrail ve bölge devletleri arasında güvenli bir ortam oluşturmayı hedeflemişse de, çalışma bu hedefin gerçekleştirilemediğini göstermektedir. Zira İsrail'in 2023 Ekim ayında Filistin’e yönelik son saldırıları da İslam İşbirliği Teşkilatı’ndan sonra İsrail ile çatışmaların sayısının ve gerilimin yoğunluğunun azalmadığını göstermektedir.

Keywords

Güvenlik İkilemi İİT Orta Doğu Müslüman Devletler İsrail

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THE 55-YEAR FAILURE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC COOPERATION

Year 2025, Issue: 11, 1 - 19, 25.06.2025

Ali Sarıhan

https://doi.org/10.53507/akademikdusunce.1580559

Abstract

The 1948 Arab-Israel war, the 1957 Suez Canal Crisis, and the 1967 Six-Day War each resulted from a security dilemma between these opposing factions Israel and the Muslim States of the Middle East. Israel’s decisive military victory over Muslim states in all of these wars led the Muslim nations to create a union, which is the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), to strengthen their union and accordingly their position against Israel. While this approach proved sound in theory, this paper demonstrates that the OIC did not lead to a more secure environment between its members and Israel. The recent 2023 October Israeli attacks against Palestine also demonstrate, the number of conflicts and the intensity of the tension with Israel has not declined after OIC.

Keywords

Security Dilemma OIC Middle East Muslim States Israel

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  • Batty, D. (2011). Egypt Withdraws Ambassador To Israel Over Police Deaths. The Guardian, 20 (Accessed: 09.01.2023).
  • Bishku, M. B. (2012). Turkish-Syrian Relations: A Checkered History. Middle East Policy, 19(3), 36-53.
  • Butterfield, H. (1951). History and Human Relations. London: Collins.
  • Castillo, V. L. G. (2014). The Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Contemporary International Society. Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales (REEI), 27, 14-21.
  • Cutler, L. (2017). President Obama’s Counterterrorism Strategy in The War on Terror: An Assessment. Heidelberg: Springer.
  • Dawn, C. E. (1968). The Egyptian Remilitarization of Sinai, May 1967. Journal of Contemporary History, 3(3), 201-224.
  • Doyle, M. W. (1986). Liberalism and World Politics. American Political Science Review, 80(4), 1151-1169.
  • Falah, G. (1996). The 1948 Israeli‐Palestinian War and Its Aftermath: The Transformation and De‐Signification of Palestine’s Cultural Landscape. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 86(2), 256-285.
  • Fearon, J. D. (1995). Rationalist Explanations for War. International Organization, 49(3), 379-414.
  • Fearon, J. D. (1998). Commitment Problems and The Spread of Ethnic Conflict. D. A. Lake and D. Rothschild (Ed.) The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion and Escalation, (pp. 107-126), Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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  • Gartzke, E. (2007). The Capitalist Peace. American Journal of Political Science, 51(1), 166-191.
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  • Greenberg, J. (2011). Turkey Expels Israeli Envoy over Flotilla Incident. Washington Post, September, 2 (Accessed: 01.02. 2012).
  • Gurock, J. (Ed.). (2014). American Zionism: Missions and Politics: American Jewish History. London: Routledge.
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  • Herz, J. H. (1950). Idealist Internationalism and The Security Dilemma. World politics, 2(2), 157-180.
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  • Layne, C. (1994). Kant Or Cant: The Myth of the Democratic Peace. International Security, 19(2), 5-49.
  • Levitt, M. (2007). Could Hamas Target the West? Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 30(11), 925-945.
  • Lipson, C. (1994). Is the Future of Collective Security Like The Past? Collective Security Beyond The Cold War, 119.
  • Lutterbeck, D. (2013). Arab Uprisings, Armed Forces, and Civil-Military Relations. Armed Forces & Society, 39(1), 28-52.
  • Mearsheimer, J. J. (1994). The False Promise of International Institutions. International Security, 19(3), 5-49.
  • Meskell, L. (2013). UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention at 40: Challenging the Economic and Political Order of International Heritage Conservation. Current anthropology, 54(4), 483-494.
  • Mitchell, D. (2019). The Cycle of Insecurity: Reassessing the Security Dilemma As A Conflict Analysis Tool. Peace and Conflict Studies, 26(2), 1.
  • Morris, B. (2008). 1948: A History of The First Arab-Israeli War. Yale University Press.
  • Organization of Islamic Conference (a) (2022). Charter. https://www.oic-oci.org/page/?p_id=53&p_ref=27&lan=en (Accessed: 10.01. 2023).
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  • Ozkan, B. (2014). Turkey, Davutoglu and the Idea Of Pan-Islamism. Survival, 56(4), 119-140.
  • Podeh, E. (1993). The Struggle Over Arab Hegemony After the Suez Crisis. Middle Eastern Studies, 29(1), 91-110.
  • Posen, B. R. (1993). The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict. Survival, 35(1), 27-47.
  • Rawls, J. (1993). The Law of Peoples. Critical inquiry, 20(1), 36-68.
  • Rosato, S. (2003). The Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory. American Political Science Review, 97(4), 585-602.
  • Schulze, K. E. (2008). The Arab-Israeli Conflict. Taylor & Francis.
  • Shafir, G. (2017). A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict. Univ of California Press.
  • Sharp, J. M. (2013, April). US foreign aid to Israel. Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service (Accessed: 19.01.2023).
  • Shlaim, A. (1997). The Protocol of Séevres, 1956: Anatomy of A War Plot. International Affairs, 73(3), 509-530.
  • Smith, C. D. (2007). Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents. Macmillan.
  • Sprecher, C., & DeRouen Jr, K. (2002). Israeli Military Actions and Internalization-Externalization Processes. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 46(2), 244-259.
  • Stevenson, J. (2020). Optimizing US Regional Footprints: The Middle East. Adelphi Series, 60(484-486), 53-70.
  • Takeyh, R. (2002). Two Cheers Form the Islamic World. Foreign Policy, (128), 70.
  • Tal, D. (2004). War in Palestine, 1948: Israeli And Arab Strategy and Diplomacy. London: Routledge.
  • Tang, S. (2009). The Security Dilemma: A Conceptual Analysis. Security Studies, 18(3), 587-623.
  • Tharoor, I. (2016). Former Asian Leader Won’t Stop Claiming Jews ‘Rule The World’. Washington Post. June 27 (Accessed: 14.01. 2023).
  • Waltz, K. N. (1988). The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory. The Journal Of Interdisciplinary History, 18(4), 615-628.
  • Yahaya, J. U. (2020). President Trump Peace Strategy: Emerging Conflict Between Israel and Palestine. International Affairs and Global Strategy, 82, 25-37.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Policy and Administration (Other)
Journal Section Research Articles
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Ali Sarıhan 0000-0002-4136-4404

Early Pub Date June 19, 2025
Publication Date June 25, 2025
Submission Date November 6, 2024
Acceptance Date May 6, 2025
Published in Issue Year 2025 Issue: 11

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APA Sarıhan, A. (2025). THE 55-YEAR FAILURE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC COOPERATION. Akademik Düşünce Dergisi(11), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.53507/akademikdusunce.1580559
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