cover image: IPC POLICY BRIEF      February 2024 - TURKEY’S QUEST FOR STRATEGIC AUTONOMY IN AN ERA OF MULTIPOLARITY

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IPC POLICY BRIEF February 2024 - TURKEY’S QUEST FOR STRATEGIC AUTONOMY IN AN ERA OF MULTIPOLARITY

8 Mar 2024

Examining the foreign policy or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the record of Turkey’s quest for strategic autonomy centre of the action.”3 In this context, the relative in relation to three key domains, security/ rollback of the United States from the Middle diplomacy, trade and investments, and energy, East has been an important development since we contend that the vision behind st. [...] broader scale, the hesitant approach of the Obama On the economic side, the government has administration in Syria also frustrated the Turkish allocated significant resources to the Syrian decision-makers, as they realised that the US had refugees residing in the country, and “the total no intentions to intervene to topple the al-Assad cost of hosting refugees in Turkey between regime militarily. [...] In response, the United Turkey is closely embedded in the European States and the EU initiated the Transatlantic supply chains thanks to decades-long trade Trade and Investment Partnership to create the and investment partnerships with the West. [...] President Erdoğan also paid an official over the territorial waters, the Exclusive Economic visit to Egypt in February 2024, which marked a Zones, and the status of several islands, Turkey critical juncture in the bilateral relations since the also started the exploration of new gas resources two leaders met for the first time since the military in the Eastern Mediterranean. [...] Exclusion faced by the US and its allies in the Middle East from the Forum and the joint military exercises in and Black Sea region heralded the rise of a the region, including Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Israel, multipolar world order.
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