The 2025 edition of SETA Security Radar analyzes Türkiye’s evolving foreign, security, and defense policies within the context of a shifting geopolitical landscape. Focused on the challenges and opportunities Türkiye faces in 2025, it highlights Ankara’s strategic responses to regional conflicts, great power competition, and defense modernization. The report examines Ankara’s defense industry advancements, including investments in unmanned systems, air defense technologies, and naval capabilities, underscoring its pursuit of strategic autonomy while maintaining commitments to NATO and fostering partnerships with Africa and Central Asia.
It also evaluates Türkiye’s role in addressing post-Assad Syria, mediating conflicts such as Somalia-Ethiopia and Sudan, and navigating tensions in Gaza while positioning itself as a regional stabilizer. Türkiye’s counterterrorism efforts, particularly against PKK/YPG threats, and its strategies to balance relations between Russia and NATO are analyzed as key aspects of its security framework.
This edition sheds light on Türkiye’s approach to mitigating economic constraints, strengthening defense exports, and leveraging diplomatic influence to shape the regional and global security order in 2025.
