This created the ephemeral impression that a new era of rapprochement was opening between Turkey, the EU, and the United States.Ī few weeks later, after several developments in the Gulf and the Black Sea as well as the first formal statement by the new Turkish foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, the main axes of Turkey’s foreign policy have emerged in a different light.
President Joe Biden, and putting back on the table the issue of Ankara’s accession to the EU. In rather bold fashion, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stole the show at NATO’s July 2023 summit in Vilnius by seemingly agreeing to Sweden’s accession to the North Atlantic alliance, reopening a dialogue with U.S.
