Erdogan’s April 2024 Visit to Iraq: An Assessment
Türkiye’s President Erdogan’s April 2024 visit to Iraq saw progress on economic integration projects and security ties.
- Abhishek Yadav
- June 05, 2024
Türkiye’s President Erdogan’s April 2024 visit to Iraq saw progress on economic integration projects and security ties.
Turkiye effectively leveraged its NATO membership to secure benefits aligned with its defence, counter-terrorism and foreign policy priorities, vis-à-vis Sweden’s accession bid.
The border region between Turkiye and Syria continues to remain highly unstable, posing a potential risk of armed conflict.
Shared security interests and Turkiye’s growing indigenous capabilities will likely ensure that the Pakistan–Turkiye defence cooperation continues on its upward trajectory.
Turkey is one of the major regional powers in West Asia. Born from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey has taken time to consolidate and establish itself as a prosperous modern state. It has overcome military coups and economic crisis in past decades and is now emerging as revitalized country with a host of opportunities for expansion. The countries of the region have often seen it with contempt and suspicion due to the Ottoman legacy as also its Western orientation in earlier part of its short modern history.
The nearly two decades of Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP; Justice and Development Party) rule has raised a number of questions on the advancement or reversal of democratisation in Turkey. Besides the partisan debate on increasing authoritarian behaviour of Erdogan, there have been limited attempts to comprehensively examine the way AKP has shaped the Turkish politics in the context of the democratisation debate.
Turkiye’s Chairmanship of the Organization of the BSEC gives it an opportunity to shape the trajectory of the pivotal regional organisation.
Erdogan extracted significant concessions while maximising Turkish national interest by supporting Sweden’s accession into NATO.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s May 2023 electoral victory reinforces the dominance of political Islam in Turkiye’s politics, despite economic crises.