Turkish Foreign Policy and Its Implications for Accession to the European Union: A Study in Political Geography

Abstract

Turkey's desire to join the European Union is one of the strategic goals adopted by Turkish foreign policy during successive periods of time. It was the first request made by Turkey to join the European market in 1959, and with the arrival of the Justice and Development Party to power, a change occurred in the foreign policy orientations followed. It carried a vision Different to Turkey's position, position and role in the regional and international arenas through its strategic location and Eurasian extensions and the possibility of openness to the countries of the world, especially after 2003. The study analyzes and reads the reasons and motives for the Turkish orientation towards the European Union after the victory of the Justice and Development Party, as well as shedding light on the determinants of the transformation of Turkish foreign policy as the result of an interaction between the state and the European Union with the development of a future vision for this relationship. functional) to analyze the function of the state and its external relations in its various forms, as indicated by The researcher deals with the historical approach to extract the values ​​and results that prove the research problem and the validity of the hypothesis, and the study reached a number of results, the most important of which is that Turkey’s membership with the European Union represents the most important strategic goal in the new Turkish foreign policy, and the government is determined to carry out all the reforms that require this, and it is a message directed towards the West Who is looking for a comprehensive change in the Islamic region because of his fear of possible alternatives that affect his strategic interests.