FEW CONSIDERATIONS RELATED TO CURRENT GEOPOLITICAL ROLE OF TURKEY
FEW CONSIDERATIONS RELATED TO CURRENT GEOPOLITICAL ROLE OF TURKEY

Author(s): Cristina Tărteață
Subject(s): Geopolitics
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: Turkey; geopolitics; Erdogan; external relations; Fethullah; Hizmet; USA; Russia.
Summary/Abstract: The author approaches a sensitive subject related to Turkey, its position in the world, and mainly in the Moslem world, the current politics of president Erdogan, presenting objectively and impartially, facts, actions and pro and con opinions with short references to causes. Turkey has been and still is on junction of some important external interests being the country and battle field of several great civilizations, cultures, surrounded almost completely by states with problems of security, stability, interests common or opposite to its own or others etc., to which are added the internal problems of Turkey related to permanent search of political, religious, economic and military balance, in the context of some reforms of president Erdogan and AKP party, both eulogized and criticized. The author considers that the last years represented for Turkey-neighbouring states a period with several political, economic, military, social events, both provoked and „spontaneous”, creating rather chaos and disorder than order and democracy, with special implications both for such countries, and for other countries, as for instance: foreign interventions and the so-called „Arab spring”, extension of Syria conflict, crisis of refugees in Turkey and EU, state, economic, and social crisis in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Egypt, competition for hegemony in the Moslem world between Saudi Arabia supported by USA, on the one hand and, on the other hand, Turkey and Iran, the occurrence and assertion of the so called Islamic State, former ISIS, consequences of Iraq war, failed coup d’état in Turkey, dated 15th July 2016, and the internal and international consequences of such situations. The author makes interesting references to the relation of Turkey with the United States of America, Russia, European Union, as well as with Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Egypt presenting interesting ideas in terms of contemporaneousness, credibility, and potential evolutions.

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