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Turkey’s relations with the post-colonial world have been marked by aloofness.1 Despite priding itself on having achieved a free and independent state after waging a war of independence against European powers following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War, Turkey, for most of its republican history, has given secondary importance to its relations with the Third World.2 Even when Turkey did build warm relations with post-colonial nations, it did so with those that were politically pro-Western, such as US-backed East Asian states. During the Cold War in particular, Turkey’s foreign policy approach was based on privileging the country’s relations with the West over non-aligned post-colonial nations. This meant that a significant part of the Global South stayed out of Turkey’s foreign policy orbit
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