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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Turkey Is About to Change

Turkey Is About to Change
05/26/2016 02:24 pm ET | Updated 2 hours ago

Kaya Genc

ISTANBUL — How will the emergence of Turkey’s Binali Yıldırım as the country’s latest prime minister affect Turkish foreign policy? Many analysts here are focused on the domestic policy implications of Yıldırım’s ascension to the prime ministerial job, but foreign policy may be the central field Turkey watchers should be looking at these days. In his first parliamentary group speech on May 24, Yıldırım announced his new foreign policy strategy. “We will increase the number of our friends; we will decrease the number of our enemies,” he said.

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