Principle Trajectories of the Domestic and Foreign Policy Crises in Modern Turkish Republic

2016

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, Vol 47, Iss 2, Pp 7-14 (2016)

The Republic of Turkey in the year of 2015 has gone through the period of critical transformation of its foreign and domestic policies. The main reason for this transformation is the inability of the Justice and Development Party to reach its goals to draft the new constitution and vest the president of the country with new powers. Nevertheless, the authors believe that there are also historic and demographic reasons for this transformation that have been developing for several decades. The basis of this transformation is the destructive foreign policy course pursued by the ruling elites aimed at fomenting crises inside and outside Turkey. The most tangible signs of that are the resumption of hostilities between the Turkish army and PKK and also regular shillings of the positions of Syrian Kurds by Turkish artillery. According to the authorities of Turkey such policy is likely to force the Turkish society and foreign partners to make concessions and give the Justice and Development Party the right to reform the country in its own way. However, such policy also increases the possibility that some internal and external actors will try to make everything possible to overthrow the ruling regime one way or another.

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MGIMO University Press, 2016.

Партия справедливости и развития, внутриполитический кризис, внешнеполитический кризис, трансформация политического курса, российско-турецкие отношения, курдский вопрос, свобода слова и прессы в Турции, Justice and Development Party, domestic and foreign policy crises, political trajectory transformation in Turkey, Russian-Turkish relations, Kurdish issue, freedom of press and word in Turkey, International relations, JZ2-6530