Turkey’s foreign policy has come full circle in the last year. Far from confronting Washington on a range of issues, Ankara is embracing its membership in NATO while working closely with ...

Turkey is not only failing in Central Asia, the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe but everywhere, Ilhan Uzgel, the country’s shadow foreign minister, wrote on April 22 in a column entitled “As ...

Foreign Affairs Turkey Can Advance Trump’s Foreign Policy Goals U.S. relations with Ankara are undergoing a radical transformation.

Speaking of Turkish foreign policy, Foreign Policy has a contribution from the Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, who explains the formal guiding principles that Turkey is following when ...

Has the West really "lost" Turkey? With Ankara showing a new cordiality to countries like Syria and Iran, foreign-policy analysts are scrambling to assess whether Turkey has shrugged off Europe ...

Contrary to what many observers believe, Turkey’s foreign policy is not expansionist. It is defensive and pragmatic.

Turkey’s geography and membership in NATO have long given the country an influential voice in foreign policy, but the assertive policies of President Erdogan have complicated its role.

Turkey’s Middle-Power Dilemma The Overlooked Costs of a Transactional Foreign Policy Mustafa Kutlay May 15, 2025 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara in Ankara, ...

On May 14, Turkey is scheduled to hold parliamentary and presidential elections, which many have called the most important votes of 2023. Most things in Turkey seem to be on hold, as everyone awaits ...

Chris and Melanie sit down with Aaron Stein, chief content officer at War on the Rocks and co-author of a new report on Turkey’s new, more independent foreign policy. Why has Ankara changed its ...

Foreign policy in Turkey, once the purview of generals and professional diplomats, has become a domestic issue and part of identity politics.

A former spymaster is now steering Turkey's pivotal role in the world as it sits between east and west as its new foreign minister. He seems to be working to make a stormy region a little more stable.