The Arab World and Regional Conflict – Example – Turkish-Iranian Conflict

The Arab homeland is a geopolitical term used to refer to a geographic region with a common history, language, and culture. The Arab homeland extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea and the Arabian Gulf in the east, including the countries that belong to the League of Arab States in West Asia, North Africa, and East Asia. Geographically, the Arab homeland includes lands that were occupied or became part of neighboring countries, such as Palestine, the Golan Heights, the Iskander Valley, the northern Syrian territories that France handed over to Turkey, Arabistan, Ahvaz, and the Emirati islands of Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb, and Abu Musa) occupied by Iran. Here the introduction shows the strategic importance of the Arab homeland. Except from a military, economic, religious, historical or cultural perspective, which had the greatest impact in dividing the Arab world into countries as stated in the Sykes-Picot Agreement and preserving disputed areas between those countries in order to remain an important element of division and conflict and to be able to control it. These disputes were used. To weaken any Arab regime could constitute a situation that contributes to building a country with military capabilities or contributions to the field of development that could be the nucleus of the desired Arab state, the most recent of which was the entry of Iraqi forces into the State of Kuwait, which ended with the American invasion of Iraq and the subsequent new American agendas for the region, such as the Middle East Project. The new one, which aims to divide the Arab countries into mini-states on a religious, sectarian and ethnic basis, in order to ensure Israel’s military and economic superiority over the countries of the Arab region and to ensure oil supplies to the West without there being a source of threat to it. In the wake of the Arab Spring revolutions, the region enters a state of rearrangement of the regions. The influence of countries, whether major powers or regional powers, has its rise and fall. The existence of the so-called Arab regional system as a whole is also threatened, turning into new circles, especially after the decline of the American military role or the unwillingness to continue this role as a result of the losses it suffered in Iraq, and from here it opened the way for regional powers to play a greater role in the region, the most important of which was the Turkish-Iranian rivalry. To extend influence in the Arab region, and in this research we address the research problem, which monitors the impact of the Turkish-Iranian rivalry and interference in the internal affairs of Arab countries. The research also dealt with the theoretical framework starting from the realist school, specifically the principle of the balance of power in realist theory, and it deals with the research method that was used in this research, which is the method. Descriptive-analytical.