Central Asia&apos;s Place in Turkey&apos;s Foreign Policy

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Central Asia's Place in Turkey's Foreign Policy

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Author(s): Zeeshan Fida

Publication date (Print): 2018

Journal: Policy Perspectives: The Journal of the Institute of Policy Studies

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With the independence of the Turkic World after disintegration of USSR in 1991, Turkey found an opportunity to fill the power vacuum in the Central Asian region left by the Soviets. Thus, in the early 1990s, the Turkish foreign policy towards the Central Asian States was hinged on the wishful ideas of Pan-Turkic World. It immediately faced outright resistance from the CARs as they craved to retain their newly found exclusive nationalistic identities. Consequently, later on, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkey relinquished their hitherto ambitious foreign policy towards the CAR and reoriented it on more pragmatic lines which allowed her to strengthen its bilateral relations with the CARs. Meanwhile, in light of the geopolitical developments in Ukraine and dramatic slowdown of the Russian economy, Turkey's balancing act in Central Asia was seen as beneficial by Moscow, which could find another partner in helping to stem some of China's swelling influence in the region. Moreover, after the failed military coup attempt in Turkey (July 2016), Russian and Turkish leadership have showed friendly overtures to each other which can strengthen their relations and both these players can play constructive role towards the development of Central Asia region.

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Publication date (Print): 2018

Volume: 15

Issue: 1

Pages: 113-125

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Zeeshan Fida is Lecturer at the Department for Defense and Diplomatic Studies, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi-Pakistan.

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[2] Aras, Bülent, and Hakan Fidan. “Turkey and Eurasia: Frontiers of a new geographic imagination.” New Perspectives on Turkey 40 (2009).

[3] Balcer, Adam. “Between Energy and Soft Pan-Turkism: Turkey and the Turkic Republics.” Turkish Policy Quarterly , vol. 11. NO 2. (2013).

[4] Balci, B. “Turkey Lowers Its Sights on Central Asian Reform”. World Politics Review , 13 June 2013.

[5] Banuazizi Ali and Weiner Myron. The New Geopolitics of Central Asia and its Borderlands . I.B. TAURIS, 1994.

[6] Baylis, John, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens. The globalization of world politics: an introduction to international relations . Oxford University Press, 2013.

[7] “China's Central Asia Problem”, International Crisis Group , 2013.

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[9] Dr Gungormus Kona, Gamze, “Turkish Foreign Policy and Central Asia”. Turkish Review of Eurasian Studies , (2005).

[10] Duiker, William J. Twentieth-Century World History . New York: Thomson Wadsworth, 2005.

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[27] Wheeler, Thomas. “Turkey's role and interests in Central Asia.” Saferworld Briefing (2013).