Interview with Professor Hüseyin Bağcı on Turkish Foreign Policy

Interview with Professor Hüseyin Bağcı on Turkish Foreign Policy

First of all, thank you very much for giving us this opportunity to talk about Turkish foreign policy with you. There have been some important changes in Turkish Foreign Policy since Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002. This change has been expressed in different ways: increased multilateralism, Turkey’s increasing soft power in the region, zero problem with its neighbours. How do you evaluate the AKP foreign policy from 2002 to 2011? Do you see this as a distinct period of Turkish foreign policy