A Turk’s only friend,’ goes a popular saying in Turkey ‘is a Turk’. With attitudes like that, the deep intermingling of foreign and domestic politics, and a fast changing regional picture, Turkey’s foreign policy is difficult to generalise about and even more difficult to predict.
One thing is a given however: Turkey’s foreign policy is important. Perhaps not as critical as it was a decade ago, and maybe not as significant as it may be in a decade’s time, but still important. Not for nothing was Turkey recently described as ‘one of the most important pieces of real estate in the world’.
