Cagaptay: Turkey's Iran Policy Harms Turkish Interests

Soner Cagaptay, senior fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute argues that Turkey's Iran policy will actually hurt Turkey's foreign policy goal of developing into a regional power.

A foreign policy that makes Turkey a regional power is good for Turkey. This officially stated reasoning guides Ankara's Iran policy. The irony is however, that Turkey cannot become a regional power if it enables Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. Once Iran goes nuclear, it would become the regional hegemon, extinguishing Turkey's hopes of becoming the premier regional power. In other words, the stated goal of Turkey's Iran policy and the results of this policy are in direct contradiction.

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