4 November 2009 / MİLLİYET HASAN CEMAL,
Is Turkey really turning its back on the West? Has there been a shift in the nation’s foreign policy axis? Are we now starting to face the East more than the West?
Is disappointment resulting from relations with the European Union pushing Turkey further towards the Islamic world, or towards Russia? There is one shared point in all the above questions that draws my attention: apprehension. Many of the eminent media publications of the West have always greeted with great concern worries that Turkey was, in fact, slipping away from the West or breaking away from Europe. None of them has ever seen it this way, though: “How wonderful, Turkey is finally heading towards where it really belongs, it was never really Western to begin with!” Worry and apprehension are normal, of course, since Turkey leaning towards the East is not in the best interests of the West.
