Özet:

During its more than 20 years in power, the AK Party has made many contradictory decisions in foreign policy. Events in the region beyond Türkiye’s control have left the AK Party in a spiral of contradictory decisions. This study aims to reveal this spiral in the AK Party’s foreign policy practices and to explain the AK Party’s maneuvers in this regard by exemplifying them. In this framework, first of all, a large number of articles, books, and political speeches were accessed by conducting a literature review on the aforementioned subject. Sample countries and autonomous regions (Iraq, Libya, Syria, Crimea, East Turkistan), which are considered to have a more pronounced foreign policy spiral and which are hotly discussed in the media, were selected and analyzed. In this framework, the main determinants (such as the Iraq War, the Greater Middle East Project, and the Arab Spring) that caused Türkiye to remain in a spiral in foreign policy were focused on. And then the tools (soft power, public diplomacy, etc.) used to get out of this spiral were briefly explained. Afterward, the AK Party’s foreign policy spiral was analyzed and interpreted within the framework of “the main determinants and tools used in foreign policy” through foreign policy examples. In this context, it was concluded that the AK Party tried to get out of the foreign policy spiral by “putting forward different policy practices” in relation with the aforementioned country examples.

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