France and Turkey beyond politicaldiplomatic enmities: the analogy of military power governance paradigm[La France et la Turquie au-delà des inimitiés politico-diplomatiques : l’analogie de la gouvernance du paradigme de la puissance militaire]

This paper aims to stress similarities between France and Turkey to shade the vision of systematically opposing them, but this does not mean that the two countries are identical: obviously, there are societal, historical, and cultural differences between them. But contrary to the common idea that tends to oppose them, there are similar points. They resemble in many ways, especially in their foreign policy interweaving internal and external issues throughout their national security strategy which is shaped by the President himself without any other power to intervene, including the Parliament. The diplomatic tensions between France and Turkey are therefore part of an institutional context of a strong concentration of power by the two Presidents, driven by the desire to pursue their country's foreign and defense policies on their own.