Turkey’s Foreign Policy Shift under the Guise of Arab Spring: Resilient Structure, Changing Perceptions, Changing Policies

• In Event: Recent Transformation in Turkish Foreign and Security Policies

Brief Overview

Turkey, first, perceived the Arab Spring as a significant structural change and reoriented its foreign policy based on this belief. Then it changed its understanding of the Arab Spring and once again reoriented its foreign policy.

Author

• Huseyin Alptekin, The University of Texas at Austin