The ideology which is systematized by the managers and accepted by the society is the thoughts, values and beliefs. The ideology provides the understanding of historical phases, commenting, evaluating and determining the politics to be followed to reach the goal of a state. Before the values in a society become an ideology, they should be adopted by decision-makers. Such developments in Turkey in recent years has taken place and the management with regard also successfully adopted a new ideology is reflected in public.
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Vice President of China Xi Jinping’s Turkey visit in February 2012 and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s China visit in April 2012 are clear show of a historical turning point in the bilateral relations. Those visits were the last of the top-level meetings between the two countries since 2009 and can be interpreted as a sign of huge developments in the Turkish-Chinese relations.
Turkey has experienced economic, politic, diplomatic and social crises many years as Turkey abducted industrial revolution and did not catch the reforms of the west. Turkish people do not have the knowledge about industry. The people in the west have acquired some knowledge about it. Turkey has got ahead in industry. Economy has affected Turkish Foreign Policy, since countries; in general, use the diplomacy for the economical activities.
Scrutinizing reflections of Turkish foreign policy in different regions is beyond the aim of this essay; instead I contend that generative principle of policy-making should be contemplated in the first place. Some analysts appraising the performance of Turkish foreign policy accentuate the inadequacy or in fact ostensible wreckage of zero-problem vision vis-à-vis recent escalation of Turkey – Syria relations. Yet I argue that first and foremost, the debate about zero-problem vision warrants reconceptualization of vision as such.
We have left behind the first decade of a new century. We are still discussing the paradigm shift taking place at the global level in the aftermath of 1989 and 2001, while taking stock of the past two decades.
