Quo Vadis Turkish Foreign Policy

Recently the Turkish Foreign Policy is presented to the public as a multidimensional, pro-active complex with positive results both at the regional and the global level. In order to verify this claim it is necessary to evaluate the developments in the principal areas of Turkish national interest such as the full membership to the European Union, Cyprus, the relations with the United States, Iraq and the PKK terror, the Middle East and the relations with Israel and the Arabs, the connection with Iran and its nuclear activities, the evolution of the Turkish-Armenian interaction and the claims regarding the so-called Genocide issue, Turkish-Azeri friendship, relations in Trans-aucasia including Georgia, Turkish- Russian relations in general and the energy dependency and transit routes in particular, the special role of Turkey in post-Soviet Eurasia and post-Yougoslav Balkans and South Eastern Europe, and, last but not the least, the Turkish economy in the context of the ongoing world economic crisis. The relevant analyses may lead to some questions about the official foregn policy attitudes.