A major geopolitical change has occurred in recent years at the gates of Europe without sufficient attention has been paid there. She has taken the turn for Turkish diplomacy since 2002 and the victory of the AKP and the accession the power of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Since the end of the Second World War, Turkey stood very clearly a strategic perspective, in the "western camp". The establishment of the Republic by Ataturk in 1923 had inaugurated a foreign policy for a complete change with that of the late Ottoman Empire, which was primarily a Middle Eastern power, to significantly towards the Western powers. With the consequent making some diplomatic distance with its Arab neighbors, resulting in two major events: the recognition of the State of Israel since its creation in 1948 and the accession to NATO in 1952. Since 1980, Turkey is a candidate for accession to the European Union, clearly showing its orientation to the West.
But the shift in foreign policy was very clear in the eyes of public opinion during the recent diplomatic crisis following the Israeli commandos attack against a humanitarian fleet en route to Gaza, largely composed of Turks, on 30 May. The condemnation of Ankara was particularly lively street with Turkish expressing virulence in protests an anti-Israeli views.
What is crucial to see is that these incidents put a halt to a process of reconciliation begun in the early 1990s between the two countries , cemented by their common alliance with the United States . Tel Aviv and Ankara have developed a partnership including active military, naval exercises on common information exchanges terrorism or the opening of Turkish airspace to aircraft of the IDF. Especially, the two states came together on the geostrategic against an "adversary" in common: Syria, Israel and Turkey with concern for common the Arab question.
What is crucial to see is that these incidents put a halt to a process of reconciliation begun in the early 1990s between the two countries , cemented by their common alliance with the United States . Tel Aviv and Ankara have developed a partnership including active military, naval exercises on common information exchanges terrorism or the opening of Turkish airspace to aircraft of the IDF. Especially, the two states came together on the geostrategic against an "adversary" in common: Syria, Israel and Turkey with concern for common the Arab question.
If it is widely seen as the last few weeks, the shift in Turkish foreign policy is rooted in the victory of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentary elections 2002. Conservative Party, whose house is powerful Islamist movement, the AKP Recep Tayyip Erdogan hoisted as Prime Minister and the new government reoriented the Turkish diplomacy. for the International Crisis Group , Turkey is now looking a " balance in its regionally based alliances and greater . In other words, while maintaining strong relationships with Western powers such as the United States and remaining candidate to the EU, Erdogan now think of Turkey as a regional power, that is to say as a power of new Middle Eastern .
This implies a rapprochement with the Arab : Turkish diplomacy is more active in international affairs in the Arab world, she had previously failed to benefit from its Western orientation. Relations with Syria and Iraq were normalized in the course of the 2000s, thanks to the exit the isolation of President al-Assad and the American presence that toppled Saddam Hussein. Turkish diplomats are very active in 2008 in solving the international crisis between Israel and Syria.
This also implies a distancing from Israel : Erdogan and the AKP have expressed a hitherto unprecedented hostility from the Turkish government against the State of Israel. Turkey has been at the forefront of denouncing the war in Gaza. And most importantly, we will use the media stunt Erdogan Forum Davos in January 2008, he left after a violent altercation with Israeli President Shimon Peres .
Some are skeptical about the "tightrope " of Turkey, Muslim power but non-Arab Middle East, like Iran. But by asserting itself as a major non-Arab Middle East, Turkey has built an intermediary that one should be neglected.
Thus, the greater involvement of Turkey in the geopolitics Middle East has found a striking illustration a few weeks ago, during the tripartite negotiations between Brazil, Iran and Turkey. The May 16, 2010, the three countries signed an agreement on the exchange of nuclear fuel. This agreement, although it is true that it does not change fundamentally challenges the Iranian nuclear issue, has been too quickly denigrated by Westerners. It shows that Iran has bypassed its traditional counterparts, around the "outstretched hand" of Barack Obama to turn to an emerging country and another non-Arab Muslim country. It shows that these are three non-Council members of the UN Security who manage the most crucial issue of the moment. It mostly shows that Turkey raises its ambitions to become a regional power.
Today, therefore two non-Arab (Ottoman Turkey and Iran Persian) which act as regional powers in the Middle East at the expense of Egypt and others. In this new situation, it is not clear that European and American diplomats have taken all the lessons.
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