The impact of Türkiye's foreign policy on the economic development of this country (1998-2008)

The literature of development and especially economic development after the Second World War has been very important for elites, researchers and statesmen and has organized the policies of governments to move in the direction of economic growth and development. Not only industrialized, advanced and first world countries, but newly industrialized, developing and third world countries also considered the movement and leap towards economic development as an important matter and a new special task of statesmen, planners and intellectual elites and thinkers. In the current research, the country of Turkey, whose economic growth and development has been significant in recent decades, has been studied and investigated. Therefore, the main question is, what effect did Turkey's foreign policy have on the economic development of this country during the years 1980 to 2008? It is assumed that by adopting a development oriented foreign policy, Turkey was able to put the two issues of foreign policy and economic development on the same path and has achieved some successes in this direction. In fact, the results show that the study on the relationship between development and foreign policy in Turkey clearly shows the mentioned link. This country, especially in the 1980s and also in the decade after the Justice and Development Party came to power, has shown a strong tendency to build trust and improve relations in the field of foreign policy (especially towards the Western world). This case also strengthens the idea of mutual connection between economic development and peaceful foreign policy. The main goal of this research is to investigate and explain the role of foreign policy in promoting and realizing Turkey's economic development, which can be achieved by using qualitative methods and using library resources.