A Testing Year for Turkish Foreign Policy
A Testing Year for Turkish Foreign Policy

Summary/Abstract: There was hardly a single day in 2011 when we did not read about im¬portant events in the newspapers which had a bearing on foreign policy. So, Turkish foreign policy was conducted at a high tempo throughout the year. This is closely related to developments along two axes. As far as bilateral relations were concerned, Turkey expanded its contacts with many coun¬tries. As for multilateral relations, 2011 was an extraordinary year for all the world’s countries. The global economic crisis and the Arab Spring more or less forced foreign policy makers to follow a crisis-based foreign policy. In short, as far as Turkish foreign policy was concerned 2011 was a year in which the world grew rapidly more complicated and crisis management and solution became much more difficult in its region.

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