
WHAT WOULD A POST-ERDOĞAN TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY LOOK LIKE?
December 8, 2021
by Haşim Tekineş, published on 8 December 2021
If Erdoğan is voted out of office, no one in Washington or Brussels should expect Turkey to suddenly turn into a docile and obedient ally. Structural changes in the international environment, broader bureaucratic and ideological trends in Turkey, and new facts on the ground that Erdoğan has created will all limit the potential for “normalization” in post-Erdoğan Turkey.