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Charting the New Turkish Foreign Policy

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AuthorŞaban Kardaş
Date01 March 2012
DOI10.1177/002070201206700101
Published date01 March 2012
Subject MatterArticle
| International Journal | Winter 2011-12 | 1 |
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.
In a rather ambitious development, Turkey has undertaken steps towards
closer social, economic, and political exchanges with its neighbours. In the
Middle East, Turkey has moved towards economic integration through the
creation of a prospective free trade zone, accompanied by the removal of visa
Şaban Kardaş
Charting the new
Turkish foreign
policy

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