Mustafa Kemal Ataturk February 27, 1938

While countries are trying to come together by regionalization as a reaction to globalization, Turkey is in the center of the unions that are formed/may be formed in its region. The main center of the five regions in the Euro-Asian transition area is Turkey;

Turkey is an internal union in which refugees from these regions make up 2/3 of its population, and these regions are united and fused. Turkey itself is a union; union of these regions. Each of these regions geographically extends into Turkey. The Balkans extend to Thrace, the Caucasus to the Eastern Black Sea, and the Middle East to the Southeast.

Before October 3, 2005

Today, the centers of attraction are not nation states; regional mergers. In foreign economic relations, Turkey, which opened to the Middle East countries in the 1980s, started to open up to the Black Sea and Caspian basin countries and the Balkans in the 1990s. The five vital areas in question have been partially covered by the BSEC and ECO;

In these regions, with the founding initiative of Turkey;

Unity Movements in the Continents of Europe-America

Europe and America are one union. While the US continent was established in the form of the United States, regional cooperation was expanded to Canada and Mexico with NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement). The European continent is also developing and expanding as the European Union. The Western World, which creates areas of unity for itself, is swallowing the pieces while following the strategy of disintegrating the states in the East (Yugoslavia, Iraq). While Germany was uniting, Yugoslavia was disintegrated and the parts started to be taken into the Union one by one. After Slovenia’s accession, negotiations are continuing with Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia-Montenegro. The EU, which remained a spectator to the bloody disintegration in its backyard 10 years ago, is drawing its geographical borders from the inside. A meaningful date is also mentioned to join the Balkans to the EU:The 100th anniversary of the 1st World War, the beginning of which was the assassination in Sarajevo, i.e. 2014. Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Massimo D’Alema, in the context of the enlargement process of the European Union (EU), the Balkan countries (meaning the Former Yugoslavia-Western Balkans). countries) say that they see Turkey in a higher priority position compared to its membership.

Unity Movements in the Euro-Asian Transition Area (Eurasia)

On the other hand, unity movements in the Euro-Asian transition area (Eurasia) and Far Asia are not yet functional. The Free Trade Agreement signed between Korea and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on May 17, which will cover a population of 548 million in ten countries, is the first concrete step in this regard.

With the same point of view in the definition of the strategic region, which is called “Greater China” with the strategies developed by the USA in the 1990s and includes China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, this time, since the early 2000s, this time covering the Middle East and North Africa regions of the Europe-Asia transition area. The center began to be defined as the “Greater Middle East”. The other four regions in the transition area are the surrounding areas of this region. With the BOP, the Europe-Asia transition area will be designed by non-regional powers with the understanding of the “Greater Middle East Union”.

After October 3, 2005

Just as the UK established the EFTA (European Free Trade Association) after it was not accepted to the EC in 1973, Turkey also turned to the BSEC project in the early 1990s, although not very clearly, after the response from the EC. Thus, Turkey was able to initiate a regional integration movement on its own initiative, and now,  after the uncertainty created on October 3, 2005 ;