Joshua Walker published on Foreign Policy Magazine's online Middle East Channel

Foreign Policy Magazine's Middle East Channel has published an article written by Joshua Walker, currently a Visiting Scholar at the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent visit to the United Nations and his pivotal role in the international political arena.

"Erdogan and Turkey's dramatic arrival and performance on the international stage has already caused waves as the perennial questions about Turkey's 'axis shift' and 'Where is Turkey going?' debates are being renewed in Western capitals", Walker writes. "In the emerging realities of the new Middle East, Turkey's ability to deliver on its agenda and promises as a regional power hinges on its consistent pursuit of democratization at home and a principled foreign policy that puts authoritarian rivals in the region to shame. Erdogan and Turkey have always offered an intriguing and tantalizing set of characteristics and potential that has never been fully realized, but is now being fully capitalized on the world stage. At the heart of Turkey's success has been a pragmatic flexibility towards its new, more active regional policy."

Read Joshua Walker's full article here.