Türk Dış Politikasının İkilemleri
Dilemmas of Turkish Foreign Policy

Summary/Abstract: Recent political developments in Turkey’s neighborhood brought for¬eign policy conduct into the center of public discussions. In the 1990s Özal’s activist policies were also subject to heavy criticism but the intensity of the debates was carried to a new level during AKP government. Foreign Minister Davutoğlu based the new policy on a historically and culturally based un¬derstanding of the political realm. Critics also moved from the same point of view, claiming that the policy conduct of AKP government was ideologically motivated and disregarded Turkey’s vital interests. Those controversies, though valuable in lying out the theoretical foundation for the new Turkish diplomacy, misses the impact of structural changes taking place on a global scale. This paper aims put forward that Turkey’s new policy initiatives starting with Özal and culminating during AKP government are a response to those fundamental changes

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