Countries that can easily supply the intermediate products we need to sustain our exports can also easily offer final products to our domestic market. In addition to all these, as long as Turkey does not follow a planned and stable production economy policy; it will not see any benefit from being on the trade routes of countries like China or India opening to the West. While oil-rich countries can balance trade by using their natural resources, and technology and patent-producing countries can use their trained human resources, Turkey does not have such advantages. The cost of railways, ports, pipeline and cable lines to be built for the establishment of the India-Middle East-Europe trade route will create a bill of hundreds of billions of dollars. Likewise, the Belt and Road project has economic difficulties to overcome, and establishing the security of the route is also of great importance. In light of the situation and information mentioned above;
In the eyes of history, the reason that made Mustafa Kemal successful and Enver unsuccessful is precisely related to this perspective. History is full of exemplary lessons; if we know how to take them, we can survive the age of chaos and crisis without damage.
Greece, which has historically been in disagreement with Turkey on various issues, did not approve of Turkey’s strengthening due to its military relations with Israel. Greece, which was traditionally pro-Arab, only agreed to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel in May 1990. In February 1998, Greek Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos, who would later play a direct role in harboring the leader of the terrorist organization PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, characterized the cooperation between Tel Aviv and Turkey as an “alliance of criminals” and “a threat to regional security,” and in September 1998, he led a joint summit with the foreign ministers of Iran and Armenia, ultimately trying to develop an encirclement strategy against Turkey with an effort that proved unsuccessful from his perspective, as shown by Syria’s retreat on the PKK issue and the Greek-GCA partnership’s retreat in the S-300 crisis.
In summary, when it comes to Turkish foreign policy, the AKP government does not give up on its goal of converting all the steps it takes into domestic political gain. In this sense, in the upcoming 7-month period, an agenda is being followed in accordance with Erdoğan’s goal of generating financial resources for local elections. Turkey seems to have an unpredictable and non-negotiable diplomatic identity for a while longer.
