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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The novelty of Turkish foreign policy is currently on everybody's lips.
With catchwords such as "soft power," "activism," or the assumption of a
new "eastern orientation," media pundits and scholars alike discuss the
transformation of Ankara's neighbourhood policy for which the minister of
foreign affairs, Ahmet Davutoglu, has coined the slogan of "zero-problem
policy" with Turkey's neighbours. There is no doubt that in comparison
with the rather hands-off approach toward the Middle East that was a core
element of the foreign policies of Turkey's Kemalist political elite, under
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan the country has made its immediate
and more distant neighbourhood a field of foreign policy activism.
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