Insight Turkey Publishes Its Latest Issue “Post-Election Turkish Foreign Policy”

The published issue of Insight Turkey strives to shed light on Türkiye’s foreign policy while providing a thorough analysis of past general elections. Within this context, the current issue presents a comprehensive compilation of four expert comments and four research articles focusing on the subject matter. Additionally, it broadens the scope by including one off-topic comment and three off-topic research articles, thus enriching the range of topics covered.

Talha Köse’s commentary focuses on the relations between Türkiye and the West, in particular with the EU by emphasizing that the re-election of Erdoğan in the 2023 general election has started a new era. In a similar vein, Arif Bağbaşlıoğlu provides an overview of the NATO-Türkiye relations through the lenses of the enlargement policy by focusing especially on the case of Sweden and Finland. In the third commentary, Valeria Giannotta touches upon the Western media perception of the general election of Türkiye by arguing that the Western media included news that was distorted and created a false perception of the general elections in Türkiye. On the other hand, Bünyamin Bezci evaluates in detail the May 2023 elections and the reasons that secured the victory of President Erdoğan and the failure of the opposition.

This issue centers on Turkish foreign policy, and within it, Burhanettin Duran and Kemal İnat present a research article that offers a comprehensive framework by addressing both regional and global challenges that Türkiye encounters. Following up, Muhidin Mulalić and Mirsad Karić, focusing on Turkish foreign policy in the Balkans. In our next research articles, Adnan Özdemir aims to investigate the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on the foreign trade volume of Türkiye, while Laçin İdil Öztığ compares Türkiye’s position on the Azerbajani-Armenian conflicts and discusses its impacts and implications in the context of regional dynamics.

This issue of Insight Turkey, thanks to the precious pieces of Sarmad Ali Khan and Saira Nawaz Abbasi, Gökhan Çınkara and Batu Coşkun, Tunç Demirtaş, Ersin Aksoy and Aytaç Kadıoğlu present off-topic research articles and commentaries enriching the scope of our special issue.

As we witnessed one of the most significant elections on the centennial of the Turkish Republic’s founding, Insight Turkey proudly presents a special issue that meticulously evaluates the elections and examines how Türkiye’s foreign policy will be shaped in their aftermath and we hope and believe that the insightful and stimulating debates raised on the issue will be helpful to our readers.