Turkey and Iran: From Competition to Cooperation?
Turkey opted to keep its distance from the Middle East for decades. Yet its involvements in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) changed with the hyperactive foreign policy of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) since 2002. With this new foreign policy orientation, Turkey began to demonstrate new interest and concern for the region and its peoples. Efforts to establish a sort of common market or Schengen area among Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan through increasing economic integration, free trade areas, and mutual ...
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