This text presents a brief overview of the journey - from theory to application - of Ahmet Davutoğlu's geostrategic views, as depicted in his work "Stratejik derinlik. Türkiye'nin Uluslararasi Konumu" (Strategic Depth: The International Position of Turkey), Kure Yaymlari, Istanbul, 2004 (2001).

Firstly, it examines the pre-Davutoglu ideological Islamic and neo-Ottoman theoretical background, as well as the main political supporters at the level of Turkish political power. It then presents the main points of his geopolitical approach, which align with the sphere of classical geostrategists/geopoliticians of the German and Anglo-Saxon schools (F. Ratzel, K. Haushofer, N.J. Spykman).

Davutoğlu serves as a classic example of an international researcher with significant epistemological and methodological shortcomings: he has not distinguished - nor has he - the difference between geopolitical analysis and geostrategic synthetic propositions. This post-theoretical deficit severely undermines the entire geopolitical analysis of the Turkish academic and politician.

However, he places "Stratejik derinlik" within the geostrategic epistemological sphere of pressing supernational nationalist narratives relevant to Turkish foreign policy. Narratives concerning the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and the broader Middle East.

Ultimately, it highlights those sub-systemic points of Davutoglu's geopolitical and geostrategic approach, which, in light of systemic geopolitical analysis, are deemed geostrategically critical for Greek national interests. The focus primarily rests on the imperialist geostrategic perceptions of the Turkish Islamist (and not merely Muslim) academic and foreign minister, regarding the issues of Cyprus, Thrace, and the Aegean.

This text serves as a stimulus for a deeper and more comprehensive study of Davutoglu's work.

Ioannis Th. Mazis