Is Turkish foreign policy becoming pragmatic again? (Kemal Kirişci, Brookings)

Only two months have passed since Ahmet Davutoğlu was dismissed as Turkey’s prime minister, but Turkey’s foreign policy is already seeing major shifts—U-turns, in fact, especially in its stance towards Israel and Russia. Three former Turkish foreign ministers and three retired undersecretaries—whom I interviewed in May—agreed that Turkish foreign policy had hit a wall, and that Davutoğlu’s departure might open room for realism and pragmatism to make a comeback. Pragmatism—something that had traditionally characterized Turkey’s foreign policy—seems to have finally come to the fore.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/07/11-pragmatic-turkish-foreign-policy-kirisci