"A re-positioned Turkey
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
There is no question that Turkey has re-positioned itself geopolitically. The shift, a historic one, became clear over the past two years. It has been a move from a fundamentally Western to an independent and more Eastern foreign policy orientation. How is this historic? It changes the once-thought irreversible direction Mustafa Kemal Atatürk set for the country. His and the Republic’s founding aim were to point Turkey westward. From the founding, through the world wars and up to recent years, Western-oriented secularism was Turkey’s global face."
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