Ozkan: "Will there be new foreign policy in new era?"

Ozkan: "Will there be new foreign policy in new era?"
Date: 10.7.2018 16:00

Milli Gazete columnist Abdulkadir Özkan writes on Turkey's foreign policy in new era. Here is the full article.

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The last Prime Minister Yıldırım answered the questions during the interview with AA editor desk, saying that there will not be much change in economic practices and that the investments will continue through outsourcing as in the past, and that the old understanding will continue in economic practices in the new period. I constantly think about how much foreign investment will strengthen the country and how much it will weaken in another letter. On this first day of the new era, I would like to emphasize whether the old line will be maintained in the same foreign policy, or whether a new attitude will be determined considering the damage we have had from the old practices.
 
As is known, since the 1950s, the US and NATO have established the mainstay of our foreign policy. For many years the essence of this policy was to shelter US protection against Russia's expansionism. So while the Soviet Union's disintegration and the failure of the communist regime did not require the US's protection, it did not change anything. Even during the Cold War as an alternative to NATO against the Warsaw Pact, formed after the disintegration of our foreign policy, despite the fact that Turkey does not need the protection of NATO continued to be carried out in the old line. The United States and NATO have also been added to the EU's love and goal. Thus, Turkey chose to be with the crusader alliance in foreign policy.
 
This is what gave preference to Turkey? The answer to this question will show the need for a new foreign policy in the new period. Because changing conditions in the world and formed a new balance with these changing conditions in Turkey, despite everything, persistently 1950 to get stuck with friends and allies declared last US let alone to act in the interests of Turkey, Turkey for their own interests in the right direction. It now emerges when the fact that Turkey's new foreign policy should apply. This fact Ismet Inonu attitude exhibited on the Cyprus issue, the United States, "a new world is established, Turkey also takes place there," he said she said. However, neither the right to say nor the right-wing parties constitute a new policy. The only exception to this is the ideal of the late Islamic Union and the steps taken in this direction by my late Erbakan Hodja. These steps are a team of internal and external environment has troubled Turkey's agenda and the February 28, more than a political process called non-political intervention raised.
 
Following these reminders, some new steps in the economy and foreign policy should come to the fore in order that the new period can be sustained in practice in the new era now that a new turn has been introduced with a new system in our country. As the last Prime Minister Yıldırım stated, economic practices will continue with outsourcing as in the past, and as an indispensable allies in foreign policy, the United States will be only some of the practices in domestic politics that will change if the EU membership will continue as a goal to be achieved. In other words, novelty will remain. Only the authority of the President of the Republic will be increased and the coalition period will be the basis of the coalition system. Then there will be no more meaning to describe the period that begins today as new. Because the problem of our country was not just the Parliamentary system. Beyond that, it was not the authority of the President. It was the failure of domestic and foreign policies to be implemented and our politics to somehow fail to bring about a compromise culture in country administration. It will not be realistic to think that by renewing the name of the system our politicians will give up or pass on this habit.

YEREL HABERLER

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