Integracja europejska w polityce zagranicznej Turcji za rządów Partii Sprawiedliwości i Rozwoju (AKP)
European integration in Turkey’s foreign policy during the time of the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) rule

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the 2010s, Turkey is certainly among the key states enjoying the status of a regional power. Turkish policy influences nearly all its neighbors, as well as almost the entire Muslim world. It is no coincidence that the participants of the Arab Spring of 2011 appreciate the achievements of the Turkish government, while the present Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan is slowly emerging as a hero among the Tunisians, Egyptians or Palestinians. Has the pro-European policy of Turkey evolved and can any regularities or changes be observed? It is also worth answering the question of whether all the factions of the ruling AKPparty support the integration of Turkey with the EU. The present foreign policy of Turkey can be positively described as pro-Western, however a reservation is required that the policy is no longer exclusively pro-Western, unlike before 2002. Successive governments ruling Turkey in the 2000s were dominated by Justice and Development party members, who consistently implemented the main assumptions of Turkey’s foreign policy, founded on the concept developed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmet Davutoðlu (Davutoðlu’s doctrine). Its primary goal, at least officially, is full membership of the European Union. Turkey is simultaneously regaining its influence in the post-Ottoman territories, lost following the fall of the Empire; it is also building a new sphere of influence in Central Asia, among other places.

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