{"id":1227,"date":"2022-07-17T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/?page_id=1227"},"modified":"2022-07-17T16:37:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T14:37:24","slug":"eliamep-paper-turkey-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/eliamep-paper-turkey-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliamep-paper: Turkey in Afghanistan:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More than one reason to stay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Policy paper on the Afghanistan-Turkey relations after the take over of the Taliban in August 2021. The paper was published on 15 July 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/publication\/\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c1\u03ba\u03af\u03b1-\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf-\u03b1\u03c6\u03b3\u03b1\u03bd\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03ac\u03bd-\u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c3\u03cc\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03b9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Captura-de-Tela-2022-07-17-as-17.00.17-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Captura-de-Tela-2022-07-17-as-17.00.17-1.jpeg 454w, https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Captura-de-Tela-2022-07-17-as-17.00.17-1-212x300.jpeg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Despite a long history of bilateral contacts, Turkey\u2019s most intensive commitment in Afghanistan only started in 2001 with the NATO mission.<\/li><li>A first friendship treaty was signed back in 1921; the first official foreign visit to the Republic of Turkey was made in 1928 by King Amanullah of Afghanistan.<\/li><li>Turkey\u2019s engagement in South Asia started with Afghanistan but has recently been Pakistan-centred.<\/li><li>As the only majority-Muslim NATO country, Turkey was viewed more positively by the Afghan population and the Taliban than other NATO member states.<\/li><li>Ankara has been reaching out to the Taliban since summer 2021. However, the Taliban have not met Turkish demands for a more inclusive government, or in relation to girls\u2019 education.<\/li><li>Turkey has become a haven for non-Taliban (opposition) Afghans, who are told not to voice their criticism of the Taliban.<\/li><li>There are four main motivations for Turkey\u2019s engagement in Afghanistan: 1) improving relations with the US; 2) stabilizing Afghanistan to prevent migrant flows; 3) getting a foothold in the geopolitics of the region; 4) benefitting from the economic potential.<\/li><li>Kabul international airport is important both for the Taliban and for Turkey. For the Taliban, it is their window to the world; for Turkey, it is an opportunity to profit economically and to boost its international status.<\/li><li>In Afghanistan, Turkey\u2019s soft power approach includes TIKA (Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency), the&nbsp;<em>Maarif<\/em>&nbsp;schools, and the Yunus Emre Institute. These institutions have remained operational.<\/li><li>In 2020, Afghanistan received the third largest amount of Turkish developmental aid, amounting to 36.5 million USD.<\/li><li>Even if the world, and Turkey, are currently focused on Ukraine, Afghanistan will continue to occupy an important place in Turkey\u2019s regional foreign policy.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Read&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Policy-paper-104-Gu%CC%88zeldere-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>&nbsp;in pdf the Policy Paper by&nbsp;<strong>Ekrem Eddy G\u00fczeldere<\/strong>, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow of ELIAMEP\u2019s Turkey Programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than one reason to stay Policy paper on the Afghanistan-Turkey relations after the take over of the Taliban in August 2021. The paper was published on 15 July 2022. Despite a long history of bilateral contacts, Turkey\u2019s most intensive commitment in Afghanistan only started in 2001 with the NATO mission. A first friendship treaty was signed back in 1921; the first official foreign visit to the Republic of Turkey <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/eliamep-paper-turkey-in-afghanistan\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1227","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1227\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}