Abstract:

After the Cold War, Turkey was unprepared to turn into the Soviet geography. With the addition of structural problems in its internal policy, the expectations and hopes for the region soon turned into disappointment and Turkey’s Central Asian relations, according to Bülent Ecevit, could not exceed the “slogan vision”. Ecevit, while the leader of the opposition, will transmit on various platforms, including the Great National Assembly of Turkey, what should be done in terms of the development of relations with the countries of Central Asia, based on the "Regional-Centralized Foreign Policy" approach, would often refer to Turkey's "key country role in the process of Eurasylation". But the opposition would not match the position he showed when he was a coalition partner and the execution he could be able to do in power. Ecevit will see the relations between Turkey and Central Asia as part of the multi-dimensional Turkish foreign policy and will be sufficient to emphasize the importance of these relations in the intensification of relations with the European Union. In this article we evaluate the elements that address Ecevit’s Central Asian policies. The opposition leadership has been developed with the statements that the coalition’s partners have been subjected to the analysis of the content method.