ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the process of Europeanisation in Turkey with respect to the foreign policy field in more than 10 years of EU candidacy. It focuses on Turkey's relations with the Middle Eastern countries that have also intensified in the last 10 years with the exception of deteriorating relations with Israel. The Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi government had in its party programme and its election manifesto the aims of acceding to the EU and the solution of the Cyprus problem. Despite all populist exclamations on foreign policy topics by the AKP leaders, the high numbers of Common Foreign and Security Policy alignments by Turkey shows that Turkey and the EU continue to work together on world affairs. The appointment of a Turkish citizen as the Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Conference was one of the first declared foreign policy goals of the AKP.
