Perspectives on Turkey\'s Multi-Regional Role in the 21st Century

Contents: Introduction/Mujib Alam. 1. Titanic Shift in the Republic of Turkey from Stasis to Homonoia/Arshi Khan. 2. The ‘Alliance of Civilizations’ and Turkish Foreign Policy/Nurullah Ardiç. 3. Strategic Depth Doctrine and Turkish Engagement in West Asia/Nitish Kumar. 4. The Syrian uprising and Turkey-Syria-Iran relations/Ozden Zeynep Oktav. 5. Turkey–Iran economic ties post-2002/Sujata Ashwarya Cheema. 6. The Arab Spring and the Turkish Model/Anita Sengupta. 7. Israel and Turkey: revisiting the alliance?/Priya Singh. 8. Turkey’s middle Eastern policy: a European attitude/Davood Kiani. 9. A New world order and its impact on Turkey–EU relations/Emirhan Goral. 10. Turkey’s dream of the European Union membership and the protracted hurdles to it/Indrani Talukdar. 11. The Gulen (Hizmet) Community in Slovakia and Bosnia: Transnational Movement as a Turkish Foreign Policy Actor/Gabriel Piricky. 12. Turkey’s Cyprus Policy under the AKP/Zeynep Didem Akinoglu. 13. Uyghur factor in Turkey’s relationship with China/Mahesh Ranjan Debata. 14. Geopolitics of Central Asia: the changing role of Turkey/Mohammad Monir Alam. 15. Role of Turkey in making peace in Afghanistan/Md. Rahat Hasan. 16. Turkey’s foreign aid programmes and its foreign policy activism in Africa/Ahmed Raza. Index.

This book dwells upon the various aspects of the Turkish foreign policy in the different regions of the world, especially with the dawn of the twenty-first century. Turkey has attracted international attention due to a marked transformation in the country’s domestic and external realms, which in turn, has led to an increased activism in its foreign policy actions. Particularly, Turkey’s economic rise has fuelled the country’s ambition and quest for a more significant role in international affairs. These transformations have come about with the ascendance of the Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP) [or Justice and Development Party (JDP)] to power in 2002. Turkey, under the AKP, moved towards a ‘new’ direction in the foreign policy and consequently endeavoured to play a larger role in West Asia (Middle East), the Balkans, southern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Africa and Asia. The country has emerged as a multi-regional player having stakes and tractions on a range of issues in these regions. The several discernible aspects of Turkey’s involvement are dealt with in the contributions to this volume.