Turkey's muscular foreign policy recently culminated in its support for Azerbaijan's military campaign to retake the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Economy in the doldrumsBut circumstances that enabled Erdogan to revolutionize Turkey's foreign policy have evaporated, analysts say. In the early 2000s, Erdogan produced excellent economic results, bolstering his bid for both domestic and foreign policy transformation. "That's the major dilemma facing Turkish policy makers, it's not the limits on foreign policy assertiveness per se. It is what that foreign policy assertiveness and combative rhetoric does to the country's economic prospects," said Ulgen.

Source: CNN October 11, 2020 03:56 UTC