Turkey U.S. Relations in the Changing Transatlantic Context

America’s re-joining of the World Health Organization a (WHO) and the Paris Climate Accord immediately after ş Biden’s inauguration as well as the reactions of top officials in l the Biden administration to Alexei Navalny’s arrest in Russia ı are early testaments to the emerging characteristics of the ğ new U. [...] The de-escalation of tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean is crucial to the revitalization of multilateralism and the lessening of the use of military means in the region, which has so far resulted in unilateral policies. [...] While the incoming European Commission adopted the goal of transitioning to a climate-neutral economy by 2050 and identified the Green Deal as the main priority of its five-year program, its transatlantic partners during the Trump administration diverged from this position to the point of withdrawing from the major global agreement (Paris Climate Agreement) on climate change. [...] RELATIONS IN THE CHANGING TRANSATLANTIC CONTEXT Taking into account the Turkish government’s insistence on its regional actor status and autonomy vis-à-vis the West, the pressure resulting from a stronger transatlantic partnership in the wider European neighborhood, including the Eastern Mediterranean, may pressure the Turkish government to recalibrate its unilateralist foreign policy toward seeki. [...] Back in the early 1990s, during the first Gulf War, when Turkey’s application for membership to the EU was rejected and a new form of relations could not be found, the United States lobbied for the initiation of the negotiations between the two sides leading to the completion of the Customs Union.