Turkey should have kept a distinction between interests and influence in the Middle East

October 17, 2015, Saturday/ 17:00:00/ SEVGİ AKARÇEŞME

One of Turkey's most prestigious scholars on international relations, whose remarks are taken seriously abroad, Soli Özel, in an interview with Sunday's Zaman, has criticized Turkey's foreign policy makers for not being able to maintain a significant distinction between Turkey's zone of interest and zone of influence in the Middle East. According to Özel, Justice and Development Party (AKP) policymakers act on their wishes rather than reali

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