As the dynamics of international and regional politics have been changing dramatically over the last couple of years, Turkish foreign policy will face important challenges in the years to come. These challenges concern not only Turkey’s relations with key western actors, such as the EU and the United States, but also the geopolitical heavyweights of the non-western world, such as Russia and China. The coming years will demonstrate Turkey’s growing difficulty in striking a right balance between its efforts to remain as a western country on the one hand and theneed to develop functional cooperation with the non-western world on the other. This is whilst global competition between the established powers of the West and the rising powers of the East intensifies. 

As the dynamics of international and regional politics have been changing dramatically over the last couple of years, Turkish foreign policy will face important challenges in the years to come. These challenges concern not only Turkey’s relations with key western actors, such as the EU and the United States, but also the geopolitical heavyweights of the non-western world, such as Russia and China. The coming years will demonstrate Turkey’s growing difficulty in striking a right balance between its efforts to remain as a western country on the one hand and theneed to develop functional cooperation with the non-western world on the other. This is whilst global competition between the established powers of the West and the rising powers of the East intensifies.