The ‘Ankara Moment’: the politics of Turkey’s regional power in the Middle East, 2007–11

André Bank and Roy Karadag

Third World Quarterly, 2013, vol. 34, issue 2, 287-304

Abstract: Around 2007 Turkey became a regional power in the Middle East, a status it has maintained at least until the outset of the Arab Revolt in 2011. To understand why Turkey only became a regional power under the Muslim akp government and why this happened at the specific point in time that it did, this article highlights the self-reinforcing dynamics between Turkey’s domestic political-economic transformation in the first decade of this century and the advantageous regional developments in the Middle East at the same time. It holds that this specific linkage—the ‘Ankara Moment’—and its regional resonance in the neighbouring Middle East carries more transformative potential than the ‘Washington Consensus’ or the ‘Beijing Consensus’ so prominently discussed in current global South politics.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2013.775786

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