IT seems that media consensus has been conclusively reached: Turkey has been forced into a Middle Eastern mess not of its own making; the “Zero Problems with Neighbors” notion, once the foreign policy centerpiece of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), is all but a romantic notion of no use in realpolitik.
Turkey’s “policy’s goal — to build strong economic, political, and social ties with the country’s immediate neighbors while decreasing its dependency on the United States — seemed to be within sight,” wrote Sinan Ulgen nearly a year ago. “But the Arab Spring exposed the policy’s vulnerabilities, and Turkey must now seek a new guiding principle for regional engagement.”

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