security competition between iran and turkey in the islamic awakening; case study: egypt and tunisia

the islamic awakening with changing power’s balance of middle east and north africa, has changed role of regional powers. therefore, geopolitical contest between iran and turkey have been more important. tunisia and egypt as leaders of revolutionary changes, are the most important. in this research we tried to compare iran and turkey's role in relation to these two countries. the research’s problem is that these two states have chosen what approach to increase nation’s security in relation to egypt and tunisia. this hypothesis has based on this both iran and turkey wanted to revolutionary developments in egypt and tunisia and would promote his political structure among these states. iran's politic has been on theory of distribution revolution to distance security threats to the farthest corners of geopolitics. in the meantime turkey’s constructivism policies toward the islamic awakening, especially in egypt caused the isolation of turkey’s foreign policy after fall of islamists; but iran’s approach that based on the copenhagen’s school caused improve iran’s role in middle east. since with crisis in syria as a security issue of the all states in the middle east; iran's diplomatic approach: peaceful, independence and regionalism; led iran closer to egypt and tunisia.