Abstract:

China, has the second-largest economy after the USA in the world following the Reform and Openness policy. Besides its fastly growing economy and increasing effect on global politics, China’s “soft power” efforts have accelerated much. China’s cultural values, student exchange programmes, conventionalization of Chinese, efforts in written and visual media and are the methods followed in efforts to create “soft power”. Additionally, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which was the biggest project of China in terms of economy and politics, is the most effective project besides the efforts for creating “soft power”.BRI, which unveiled in 2015 by Xi Jinping, aim to entagration countries in different continents via big infrastructure investments. Turkey is located in the Middle Corridor within the scope of BRI, constitutes one of the biggest parts of this project with its geographic allocation, young population and increasing effect in global arena in terms of economy and politics. But looking at the Sino-Turkish ralations, it is seen that the relations between the set two countries are not on a positive trend and they do not know each other well. The aim of this study is to ascertain China’s efforts in Turkey within the scope of its current soft power and BRI and present suggestions for increasing the amount and variety of such efforts and investments in order to improve the relations between the two countries.

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