Turkish Foreign Policy Towards Balkans and Serbia Under Davutoğlu Administration

Year 2018, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 0 - 0, 17.09.2018

Sanja Arežına

https://doi.org/10.14782/ipsus.460138

Cited By: 3

Abstract

Developments in geopolitics of the Eurasia emphasize the presence and the role of Turkey. Its position

has substantially changed since the 1970s and 1980s and its influence has become far more visible. As

multidimensionality becomes the characteristic of its foreign policy, Turkey is becoming more active

on the Eurasian geopolitical scene, trying to establish itself as (macro) regional power in the process

of creating a multipolar world order. Serbia comes into focus of Turkey’s foreign policy as a key state

in the Balkans that represents, in addition to the Middle East and the Caucasus, its primary sphere of

influence and a bridge to the West in which Turkey carries out visible political, economic and cultural

impact. This paper deals with modes of Turkey’s cooperation with Balkan states, primarily Serbia, and

with the influence that public opinion has on their bilateral relations.

Keywords

Turkey, Foreign policy, Serbia, Balkans, Public perception

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