ABSTRACT
A variety of problems connected with internal security continued to plague Turkey during 1986. Both Prime Minister Ozal and President Evren continued their travels abroad in 1986, and several foreign Heads of State or of Government visited Turkey. Relations between Britain and Turkey have on the whole been warm in recent years, particularly under Conservative Governments. Relations between Turkey and India were cordial in the early years of the Turkish Republic, in considerable part because of strong mutual admiration between Gandhi and Ataturk. Turkey has always had a foreign policy orientation with a strong regional component, though the fact that most of the Balkan countries are in the Soviet bloc has made relations with them a problem often requiring a careful balance. In addition to Turkey's desire to increase oil imports and the export of Turkish goods, and to maintain the sizable transit earnings that have developed, its major preoccupation was frontier security.
