Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• َArash Moradi ¹
• Fariborz Arghavani Pirsalami ²

¹ Ph D Student in Political Science,, Department of Law and Political Sciences, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Shiraz University. Shiraz, Iran.

² Associate Professor of International Relations, Department of Law and Political Sciences, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Shiraz University. Shiraz, Iran.

Abstract

In order to achieve strategic independence,Turkey's foreign policy sees Asia as an opportunity to benefit from economic advantages and play a new security role.This article raises the question of whether the adoption of an Asian orientation policy in Turkey's foreign policy during the Erdogan era was influenced by the security balance orby the necessities ofeconomic diplomacy.It believes that the perception of Turkish leaders of the transitional international order initially made economic attractions the main driver of this country'sAsian movement, but asTurkey's ties with Asia expanded,preserving interests and responding to security ambitions overcame economic motives and will play a more prominent role in thisorientation in the long run.This article first highlights the systemic developments that govern the emergence of Asia from a theoretical perspective, then examines these developments from the perspective of the mediating variable, namely the perception of Turkish leaders, and finally, by combining the systemic element and the mediating variable, it attempts to clarify Turkey's security and economic considerations in its Asian orientation.The findings show that Türkiye's Asia-centric policy is an example of the interaction between economic opportunities and security imperatives, highlighting the importance of a combined structure-leadership analysis in understanding foreign policy developments in developing and middle-income countries.

Keywords

• Asia
• Türkiye
• economic diplomacy
• foreign policy
• security balance

Main Subjects

• Developments in the Islamic world