Turkey's policy towards the European Union in light of the American strategy (2001-2015)

Abstract

Turkish foreign policy has achieved a set of goals: the most important of which is to gain Western support for Turkey by highlighting Turkey's strategic importance to the Western world, and in order to become one of the influential regional powers in the regional and international environment, leading to full integration with the European continent. Since the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, the importance of Turkey to the two parties to the conflict has emerged, as Turkey's main goal was to align with the United States of America, and the situation in turn affected the definition of the features of Turkey's foreign policy for the next stages, especially its policy towards Europe, as the policy was primarily linked to the self-potential In addition to the American external support that Turkey tried to invest in order to speed up its accession to the Western institution, however, it was unable to join these institutions as a result of its internal crises and the transformation of the global system from a bipolar system to a unipolar one.