Assessing Turkey's foreign policy performance over the past year and its outlook

There is no formal discourse or politics in Turkey that calls itself post-Kemalist, and this is the only theoretical concept that analysts have given to some individuals and groups in Turkey. The first politician who can be called a post-Kemalist is Najmuddin Erbakan, who came to power in June 1996 under Suleiman Demirel's government. The rise to power of the Welfare Party in the mid-1991s under the leadership of Erbakan was the first major separation of Kemalism in domestic and foreign policy. Criticism of the West and Israel, moderation toward the Kurds, use of Islamic literature and words, multilateralism in foreign policy, attempts to distance from the West and closeness to Islamic countries (so that he did not travel to any Western country and most of his trips was to Islamic countries) Disobedience to the Damato law and the continuation of relations with Iran and Libya, the signing of a 20-year gas agreement with Iran and the establishment of an Islamic organization were among Arbakan's post-Kemalist approaches.
Arbakan's post-Kemalist approaches failed much sooner than it seemed, and it was the Kemalists and the militaries that, with a white coup, ousted him from power in 1997. Nevertheless, the post-Kemalism project remained as a discourse at the heart of Turkish politics, and this time in the early 2000s, the AKP's political leaders once again had the opportunity to run for the Turkish government. But they took strong steps in their path this time.