Die türkische Außenpolitik unter Präsident Erdoğan: Zwischen hegemonialen Machtansprüchen, geopolitischen und internen Zwängen
Turkish Foreign Policy under President Erdoğan: The Tension between Hegemonic Power Aspirations and Geopolitical and Domestic Constraints

Summary/Abstract: Under President Erdoğan, Turkey’s regional power radius has expanded considerably. Turkey’s influence has visibly grown regionally and internationally. In its foreign and security policy, Erdoğan’s Turkey relies on strategic autonomy, a mix of political and military means, including an increased readiness to use military force, and a fluid alliance policy. Relations with Western allies are secondary. The strategic goal is to advance its ideologically shaped great power ambitions as well as its (geo)political, economic and energy policy interests. Conflicts with the West (USA, NATO, EU) are unavoidable due to the country’s own strategic goals, hegemonic power projections and positioning in the changing global and regional power order, as well as due to the internal Islamist-ultranationalist government constellation. Relations with the West will therefore remain complicated.

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