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Rival or Awkward Partner? Turkey’s Relationship With the West in the Balkans

While Ankara’s activist policy in Southeast Europe has prompted many to see the country as a revisionist power, this is not the case. Turkey is not an external player but very much part of the Balkans, and its foreign policy is a parallel strategy to those of the EU and NATO, rather than a challenge.

by Dimitar Bechev
published by
Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
 on January 26, 2022

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

SecurityForeign PolicyRussiaTürkiyeEastern EuropeMiddle EastIran
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