What can Turkey do to counter its bad perception? – Dialogue with Kurds & Israel

By Fuat Keyman – Al Monitor

Keep the solution process alive and intensify regional and global cooperation between Turks and Kurds.

Reactivate Turkey-EU relations and make EU the anchor of Turkey’s foreign policy. In other words, as before, come close to the West to launch regional efforts in the East.

Elevate democratic reform and democracy standards inside the country, and thus negate the question of whether or not Turkey is on the path to authoritarianism.

Make serious efforts to succeed in normalization with Israel. Such moves will help moving Turkey away from the Cairo-Damascus axis it has been focused on for a long time and move it toward the Tehran-Tel Aviv-Brussels-Washington axis. Redirecting the foreign policy and coming up with a vision will then be a response to efforts to exclude Turkey.

This is what has to be done today.