“After using armed forces in Cyprus and claiming an important part of the island, after the ASALA &‘terror organization’ raised the Armenian issue and on top of that when the PKK again violently brought up the Kurdish issue, Turkey trusted to employ its weapon force whenever necessary and became a country that believed as its military became stronger it could make others accept its request the better,” Turkish Hurriyet reads. NEWS.am posts the passages.

he daily comments on the foreign policy of recent 40 years revealing its metamorphosis and course change.

“We did whatever Washington said. Let's first look at international issues. In the 1970 and 80s, to some extent in the 90s regarding applications in international politics Turkey would keep an eye out for Washington. The Cold War split the world in two, the good (Western camp) and the bad (the communist bloc). Whatever they'd do they’d oppose, whatever we’d do they’d applaud. To tell the truth things were much easier and simpler back then. International crises were not too much of a concern of Ankara. It would wait for a sign of the camp leader Washington and act accordingly. Ankara’s tranquility was for the first time disturbed by Cyprus in 1974. It did neither pay attention to Palestine nor to regional issues nor to issues of other Muslim countries. Turkey was only interested in Cyprus.

This situation has changed since the 90s. Until the 2000s, Turkey seemed to only solve its domestic problems, and issues with regional countries like Cyprus, Greece, Syria, Armenia and Iraq with force of weapons.

Presently the general attitude and methods for solving crises have completely changed.

Of course the international environment has changed as well. Presently force is not that much used. The international balance is different. But despite all, Ankara’s attitude toward its domestic and international problems is very different. Now there are no more fights, no escalation of crises and no weapon force. On the contrary there is dialogue and an effort to understand each other.The most important thing is that Ankara does not threaten anyone any more.”