Türkiye’nin “Afrika Açılımı”: Düşünceden Olgunlaşmış Politikaya

Year 2021, Volume: 9 Issue: Toplum & Siyaset, 173 - 179, 29.03.2021

Şerif Onur Bahçecik

https://doi.org/10.18506/anemon.770432

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Türkiye’nin Sahra altı ülkelerle ilişkileri 2000’li yıllardan itibaren önemli ilerleme kaydetmiştir. Var olan çalışmalar bu politikanın ardındaki motivasyonlara odaklanmış ve meselenin siyasal, ekonomik ve kültürel boyutlarını analiz etmişlerdir. Bu makale ise politikanın oluşum sürecine odaklanarak yazına katkıda bulunmayı amaçlamaktadır. Türkiye’de Afrika ülkelerine yönelik bir açılım 2000’lerden önce gündeme gelmiş olsa da bu çabalar ya tam anlamıyla bir politikaya dönüşmemiş ya da hükümet değişikliği nedeniyle terk edilmiştir. 2000 sonrası Afrika politikasının başarılı bir şekilde ortaya çıkması kısmen bu çabalara ve siyasa girişimcilerinin destek alabilmek için benimsedikleri stratejilere bağlı olmuştur.

Keywords

Türk dış politikası, Afrika, İnkrementalizm, Siyasa yapımı

Turkey’s “Opening up to Africa”: From Idea to Full-Fledged Policy

Abstract

Turkey’s relations with Sub-Saharan African countries have developed substantially since the 2000s. Existing research has focused on the motivations for this policy and analyzed it from political, economic and cultural aspects. This article seeks to contribute to this literature by focusing on the emergence phase of this policy. An opening towards African countries have come to the agenda in Turkey several times before the 2000s but these attempts either did not turn into full-fledged policies or were abandoned after a change of government. The successful emergence of the post-2000 African policy is in part based on these attempts but also on the strategies adopted by policy entrepreneurs to get support for the opening.

Keywords

Turkish foreign policy, Africa, policy making, incrementalism

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