New Turkey and the Arab Spring?

Once Turkey considers and comes to terms with the challenge of formulating a new political language, it can rise to the level it aspires to as a new actor in a new region and in a new global order.

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New Turkey and the Arab Spring
Arab Spring and its Effect on Turkey's Regional Policy

Arab Spring and its Effect on Turkey's Regional Policy

Turkey’s position, in this respect, will have decisive impact on regional power balances between Turkey, Iran and Arab world in post-Arab Spring period. 

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It would be misleading to interpret the changes in the Arab world as isolated developments taking place in each and every country.

On January 14, 2011, Ben Ali fled Tunisia after 23 years in power, signaling the end of the distorted regional order in the Middle East and North Africa.

Relations with the region have been multi-faceted, encompassing diplomatic, economic and civil society dimensions since 2002.

Turkey has refreshed its social and historical memory of each and every country that experienced change and revolution.

Future of Arab Spring and Turkey

Turkey is so involved in developments in the Middle East that it cannot be a mere spectator to what is currently taking place.

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Future of Arab Spring and Turkey
Arab Spring and its Effect on Turkey's Regional Policy

Arab Spring and its Effect on Turkey's Regional Policy

Recent Arab revolutions have brought both opportunities and challenges to Turkish foreign policy. 

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SETA PANEL DISCUSSION Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey Ahmet Davutoğlu Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tunisia Rafik Abdessalem Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Time:13:00 Venue: SETA, Ankara Hall

Rafik Abdessaalem, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia and Ahmet Davutoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey will discuss Arab Spring and the relations between Turkey and Tunisia.

SETA Panel brought two distinguished speakers together to discuss Turkish-Tunisian relations, as well as the recent developments in the Middle East and the North Africa: Foreign Affairs Minister of Tunisia Rafik Abdessalem and Foreign Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoğlu.

The Arab uprisings in early 2011 provided the US and Turkey with an opportunity and a necessity to discover new forms of cooperation and policy coordination due to the urgency for action on the ground.

The majority of those who claim that the Arab Spring has become an Arab Winter due to the violence that erupted in reaction to the obscene movie also happen to think that the Arab Spring itself was a motion picture.