Turkey's Soft Power Tools in Central Asia and South Caucasus

After the AKP's rise to power, political reforms increased the power of Turkey in the international arena, and this led Turkey to enter into the circle of soft power players in regional and international arenas.
Taking this into account, the present paper aims to investigate public diplomacy and soft power components of Turkey. And, in the next step, this research intends to analyze Turkey’s soft power policy in Central Asia and South Caucasus. The authors of the article aim to assess the public diplomacy and soft power components in Turkey’s foreign policy in Central Asia and South Caucasus. This study hypothesizes that Turkey’s soft power and its public diplomacy have been founded on three components of language, common history, and economics which, due to development, have been transformed into multi-dimensional acts. Now considering this finding, Turkey demands to be transformed into an influential regional power in competition with other regional powers. In this case, Turkey has achieved some success over the last two decades and created a positive image. Hence, Turkey is determined to strengthen her epistemological foundations of native culture, generalize values, and send her knowledge and attitudes beyond geographical borders. To do so, it employs soft diplomacy and the power of satisfaction. The applied research methodology is the analytic-descriptive one.