Türk Dış Politikasında Vizyon Değişimi ve Dış Yardımlar

Abstract

When a country's foreign policy vision is considered, that country's targets and purposes which can be realized in future come to the mind. Word 'vision' is about the act of seeing as per the meaning of word and it means the distance of sight and farsightedness. The equivalent of this in the foreign policy can be accepted as being interested and developing policies. Vision of a country is in close relation with the geographies it is interested in and the subjects of policies it develops. This situation also shows the relation between the countries' visions and their positions within the international system. Vision discussion is one of the main discussion subjects going on in Turkish foreign policy for years. The question, whether Turkey has a foreign policy vision and/or which geographies are included in this vision, goes back to the years when Republic was founded. Turkey, which adapted a status quo foreign policy approach based on protection of the borders with Treaty of Lausanne (except participation of Hatay to the main land) on the first periods of foundation, has tried to stay far from the developments in this area with the related policy. After the World War II, it adopted a passive foreign policy by taking part in NATO with the Western countries and it kept its relation with the world out of West in minimum. This situation changed with end of the cold war and disintegration of the Soviet Union and Turkey has started to be interested in Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Balkans and the Middle East. However, instability of interior policy due to coalitions has not given way to develop in this subject. In 2002, new attempts were made with change of understanding in foreign policy after Justice and Development Party has come to power alone. Solid policies on different geographies of the world were developed by providing vision expanse in foreign policy. Subject of this study will mark the expansion in Turkey's foreign policy vision especially in the latest term. Moreover, aforementioned vision expansion will be materialized by telling foreign supports given in the latest term.