السياسة الإقليمية التركية: دراسة في الاتجاهات

Abstract

It is widely acknowledged that over the past decade, Turkey’s foreign policy has undergone profound transformations, so that a lot of people use to talk about the “new Turkish foreign policy.” The coming to power of the AKP has resulted in profound foreign policy changes, but these changes were probably miscalculated. In 2010, one of the most popular themes of international experts conferences on Turkey could be summarized by the famous controversy: « Is the Turkish foreign policy changing its axis and turning East? » Today, since Ankara facing the Syrian crisis argues its NATO membership and is found on close positions to those of its Western allies, similar debates wonder whether Turkey is back to the West? Time and the “Arab Spring” have not yet cleared the substantive changes experienced by the Turkish foreign policy, they simply allowed us to understand that they were not quite those we originally thought…