{"id":2618,"date":"2017-10-24T23:26:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2017-10-24T23:26:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:26:01","slug":"how-the-balkans-were-won-a-turkish-foreign-policy-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/10\/24\/how-the-balkans-were-won-a-turkish-foreign-policy-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW THE BALKANS WERE WON: A TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY SUCCESS STORY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : The National Interest<\/p>\n

By Vuk Vuksanovic<\/p>\n

On October 10 2017, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan went on a state visit to Serbia. While there, he met with his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107, and stated: \u201cTogether with Serbia and with the entire Balkans, we want to make steps to resolve all the problems.\u201d Vu\u010di\u0107 reciprocated by saying that \u201ctoday, Serbia considers Turkey as its friend.\u201d Although Erdo\u011fan\u2019s visit to Serbia was primarily bilateral, it also showed that Turkey had once again become a major player in the Balkans. Indeed, given the stuttering state of Turkey\u2019s international relations, the Balkans appear to be the one place where Turkish foreign policy is a success.<\/p>\n

With the long shadow cast by the history of the Ottoman Empire, emphasizing the strong ties between Turkey and the Balkans may not be revolutionary. It does, however, mark a significant departure from nearly a century of Turkish foreign policy. After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkan Wars and the Empire\u2019s ensuing collapse after World War I, the Balkans ceased to exist for Atat\u00fcrk\u2019s Turkey.<\/p>\n

For the foreign policy of the new Turkish republic, the Balkans simply did not exist as a strategically important region. Instead, Turkey\u2019s diplomacy was guided by the Atat\u00fcrk\u2019s famous principle \u201cPeace at Home, Peace in the World.\u201d Operating under this maxim, Turkey stopped trying to be a major power in its former Ottoman provinces.<\/p>\n

This remained the case for much of the Cold War, with Turkey\u2019s policy towards the Balkans mostly reduced to bilateral diplomacy. The region was important for Ankara only in context of countering potential Soviet threat\u2014most notably the failed 1950\u2019s Balkan Pact between Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n

Read more at : http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/how-the-balkans-were-won-turkish-foreign-policy-success-22771<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced : The National Interest By Vuk Vuksanovic On October 10 2017, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan went on a state visit to Serbia. While there, he met with his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107, and stated: \u201cTogether with Serbia and with the entire Balkans, we want to make steps to resolve all the problems.\u201d Vu\u010di\u0107… Continue reading HOW THE BALKANS WERE WON: A TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY SUCCESS STORY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[608],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}