With the beginning of the 21st century, style and substance of Turkish foreign policy changed to a large extent. The most important one was the fact that Ankara started to follow “security building” rather than “desecuritization” policies towards her neighbors. In this context, the mottos adopted by the Özal Administration such as “less geopolitics, more economics” or “trade but not aid” depicted Turkey’s such policies very well. Turkey’s relations with the GCC states improved against this background. Th is article, after giving a short historical past of the bilateral relations, will focus on the reasons for improving relations between both sides with beginning of the 2000s. Second aim of the article is to analyze whether Turkey’s improving relations with Iran had a negative impact on Turkey GCC States especially after the outburst of the Arab spring. Lastly, the evaluation of the impact of Turkey’s policies towards the revolts in Egypt, Libya and Syria on Turkey-GCC states relations will be another concern of the study.

The Arab Spring arose as a significant phenomenon to promote socio political changes in the Middle East countries. Under this context, the Syria Arab Republic (Syria) is in one of the most controversial humanitarian crisis in the 21st Century surrounded by different interests, not only by local ones (the Syrian people), but also by regional and global ones. In this regard, this article explores the backgrounds of this Syrian crisis, its main actors and the possible scenarios to overcome this situation.