{"id":47799,"date":"2010-10-23T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/10\/23\/populist-is-right-word-for-turkeys-foreign-policy-expert-says\/"},"modified":"2010-10-23T02:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T02:06:00","slug":"populist-is-right-word-for-turkeys-foreign-policy-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/10\/23\/populist-is-right-word-for-turkeys-foreign-policy-expert-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Populist is Right Word for Turkey&#8217;s Foreign Policy, Expert Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Arian AMU'\">\u201cPopulist is the right word [for Turkey&#8217;s emerging foreign policy], more than Eastward or Islamist \u2013 they are really conscious of what Turkish opinion polls say,\u201d said \u00d6mer Ta\u015fp\u0131nar, a Turkey expert at the US National War College, Euroasianet.org reports. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when there is such a high level of resentment in the United States against Turkey, this creates problems for the [Turkish] government. Turkey is becoming more democratic, self-confident, but the fact that public opinion does not have a very favorable opinion of the United States is creating a problem for the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ta\u015fp\u0131nar identified the failure of Ankara to ratify the US-brokered protocols between Turkey and Armenia as one of the reasons that US policymakers are disillusioned with Turkey. \u201cWhen the president of the United States invests a lot of political capital in Turkey, and there&#8217;s an engagement process, but in return Turkey fails to deliver on Armenia, and then fails to deliver on Iran, there are big question marks in Washington,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>But the same question marks exist in Ankara, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy should Turkey always be with the United States when US foreign policy has had major failures?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the president of the United States&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[65942,11613,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}