Important decisions will be taken in the near future concerning Turkey’s future relationship with the West and its place within the Western political and security structure.
Last week’s NATO foreign ministers’ meeting hit the headlines of many newspapers worldwide as the event witnessed a quarrel between the respective Turkish and American foreign ministers, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Mike Pompeo.
As was expected, Turkey announced that the Oruç Reis exploration vessel has concluded its seismic works in the eastern Mediterranean and had returned to Antalya’s port on Nov. 30. The vessel had been conducting seismic studies in disputed areas of the eastern Mediterranean since Oct. 12.
Undoubtedly, the signing of 10 new agreements between Qatar and Turkey at the sixth Supreme Strategic Committee chaired by Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Nov. 26 in Ankara is a significant development for both economic terms and its implications on international relations.
The reforms soon to be announced by the government in a bid to better Turkey’s investment climate are the topic of the day in Turkish politics.
This column on Nov. 14 concluded that Turkey should re-calibrate its entire foreign policy in a bid to mitigate risks on its economy in the new era launched by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in early November.
Turkey has witnessed four important dates so far in its ongoing efforts for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 10, the Turkish Health Ministry reported the first case and thus formally launched an anti-virus struggle through strict measures announced after only a few days.
A jointly penned letter by France and Germany’s foreign ministers, Jean Yves le Drian and Heiko Maas, for the Washington Post rightly suggests that much-anticipated trans-Atlantic unity can be reached between Europe and the United States under President-elect Joe Biden’s administration. The ministers underlined that a new deal between the two sides of the Atlantic is needed to adapt their partnership to global upheavals.
Turkey enters a new era during which it will prioritize reforming the economy and the judicial system, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed on Nov. 11 in his first assessment following a change in the economic management. He meant to say that the short-term and medium-term measures will be initiated by the government in a bid to address the long-standing problems in the economy and justice. In his statement on Nov. 14, he added democracy to the list of areas in which the government will start a brand new mobilization.
