Search for Turkey’s new identity and foreign policy

... role. However, for the Turkish nationalists, especially for the Kemalists and the nationally-oriented center-leftists, this turn of events is extremely risky in terms of preserving the unity of the Turkish state: in addition to the Kurdish problem, Turkey runs the risk of religious strife. Islamism and nationalism again conflicted. Thus, it seems that all the domestic and foreign policy moves by the current Turkish government were dictated by a change of ideology in the country. This is an extremely painful process for any country and it ...