Post-Cold War Turkey has drifted away from the West; yet alarmism over a wholesale Islamist transformation is … exaggerated. It is based off misunderstandings of Turkey's domestic political climate and its foreign policy goals. This paper … argues that, though the country's foreign policy has become less pro-Western, Turkey's new orientation is less reflective of …

Over the course of the last decade, Turkey has emerged as a major actor in the Middle East. It has embarked on a … to strike an “independent” foreign policy from the United States. In fact, Turkey’s new activism in the Middle East and …. Today it is the world’s 16th largest economy. The second is Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party, AKP, leadership …