La Turquie, le Moyen-Orient et les révoltes arabes

Abstract

Turkey under the AKP, for domestic political reasons but also under the weight of regional and international changes, outlined a new foreign policy while arguing azimuth geostrategic and geoeconomic position. Without abandoning its Western allies and its prospects for joining the European Union, Ankara turns to the Arab-Muslim world seeking to achieve a hegemonic position or become the cultural center of this set according to the old Ottoman model. This is an ambitious project whose success would give Turkey a unique weight to every point of view. That said, it is unlikely that the new Turkish policy could reconcile its own contradictions and overcome the mistrust of Arab countries towards it which have their own priorities and that have no interest in helping Turkey to become a regional pole even to their detriment.