Abstract
With the break-up of the Soviet Union, Turkish officials were eager to develop close ties with the newly independent Turkic states. Encouraged by a US administration suspicious of Iranian ambitions, there were those in Ankara who hoped that Turkey could lead some form of Turkic Commonwealth. But the Turkic states, reluctant to be led by a new Turkish Big Brother, and soon aware of Turkey’s economic shortcomings and political difficulties, sought also to cultivate relations with other states. In Turkey, with the right-wing Nationalist Action Party (MHP) in the coalition government, which took office in 1999, a warm sentiment toward the Turkic states lingers. However, most Turkish officials and businessmen have come to pursue more pragmatic policies. Closer ties with non-Turkic states of the former Soviet Union have been fostered, including with Russia, Turkey’s traditional rival.
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Winrow, G.M. (2002). Turkish National Interests. In: Kalyuzhnova, Y., Jaffe, A.M., Lynch, D., Sickles, R.C. (eds) Energy in the Caspian Region. Euro-Asian Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501225_11
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