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121186
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ID:
121172
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2012.
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Turkey's foreign policy activism on a range of regional and global issues
has sparked enormous interest in academic and policy circles in recent
years. Turkey occupied a central place in discussions on the Iranian nuclear
program when it formulated, with Brazil, a plan to transfer part of Iran's
nuclear stockpile to Turkey in apparent opposition to the US policy of
spearheading a new round of sanctions in the summer of 2010. Turkey's
attempts to interject itself as a mediator into regional crises-be it between
Israel and the Arabs; Afghanistan and Pakistan; Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia,
and Croatia; various Iraqi groups; various Lebanese groups; or Russia and
Georgia-has been another area of activism for Turkish diplomacy. At the
same time, Turkey has initiated dialogue with such neighbours as Armenia,
Greece, and Iraq to resolve decades-old disputes and normalize bilateral
relations. Turkey's efforts to capitalize on its geographic location to turn the
country into a major hub for the transportation and marketing of Eurasian
and Middle Eastern energy resources to global markets has provided yet
another dimension of Turkey's growing visibility in international affairs.
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ID:
121183
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ID:
121174
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2012.
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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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ID:
121188
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ID:
121178
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ID:
121187
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ID:
121185
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ID:
121184
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ID:
121177
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ID:
121180
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ID:
121179
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ID:
121173
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2012.
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The expansion and the new directions of Turkish foreign policy over the last
decade have generated a lively debate in domestic and foreign policy circles,
among diplomats, analysts, academics, journalists, and businesspeople, and
in civil society. The debate revolves around the transformation of Turkey's
foreign policy agenda against the backdrop of major shifts in regional and
global power structures. Various questions, some well informed and others
rather rhetorical, are posed to assess Turkey's standing in global politics.
Are Turkey's recent engagements in multiple regions a new phenomenon
generated and sustained by the ruling Justice and Development party's
(AKP's) domestic agenda? Is Turkey's newfound interest in the Middle
East and the larger Muslim world a result of the "Islamization" of Turkey,
as some critics claim? Has Turkey given up on the European Union and
thus its traditional alliance with the west? Also, has Turkey found a balance
between "actor" and "structure," i.e., does the current foreign policy amount
to more than the individual, self-proclaimed initiatives of successive AKP
governments? Finally, is Turkey a model for the Arab world?
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ID:
121181
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ID:
121182
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