Hurriyet Daily News published an article by Murat Yetkin devoted to the possible results of the Egyptian coup. The article is headlined 'Turkish foreign policy after the coup in Egypt.'
"Since the coup d’etat in Egypt that toppled the elected president Mohamed Morsi on July 3, the Turkish government has been following an extremely rare, if not unique line in the history of diplomacy. With the motivation of bitter Turkish experience, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan is persistent on not accepting the fait accompli by the Egyptian army and has been asking world leaders and institutions for the reinstallation of Morsi; in another words, undoing the coup," the article reads.
"This is perhaps a climax of the “politics of principles,” which Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has been repeating to describe the foreign policy of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) government through its 11 years in power. This is also how Turkey’s policy of involvement in the Syrian civil war has been explained. Not only the Turkish government, but also the opposition and civil society, have condemned the coup in Egypt, in such a way as to say that they would not allow a military coup in Turkey anymore. Aside from domestic political concerns, the Turkish point of view of not accepting the toppling of an elected president by the army, no matter what authoritarian tendencies he might have developed during his one year in power, is approved by Turkish people," the author writes.
"Cutting or reducing the level of ties with the coup regime in Egypt does not look like being the most rational thing to do for the Erdoğan government. This means a major shift in Turkish foreign policy toward a “realpolitik” one will be necessary, which will have consequences in domestic politics, too," the author believes.
