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Turkey wants to consolidate the trend that sees it playing at every table and build a highly vectorial diplomacy...
Turkey is poised to join BRICS, the forum of major non-Western economies centered on Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa. The news, reported yesterday by Bloomberg, is divisive and shows Recep Tayyip Erdogan's willingness to play the geopolitical game on every table in order to increase Ankara's global influence.
At the BRICS summit in October, which will be held in Russia in a month and will see the debut of Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Iran, countries involved in the first enlargement of 2023, it is possible that Ankara's request for membership to be formalized. Turkey, if accepted, will be the first NATO member country to enter the forum created as a system of coordination of the external economies of the West and whose evolution seems increasingly hybrid.
Turkey wants to consolidate the trend that sees it playing at every table and build a multi-vector diplomacy, in which expanding influence in one direction compensates, in certain cases, for curbs or other bottlenecks. At this stage, for example, in which the country of Anatolia finds itself in an impasse in its position in the near exterior, with the war in Gaza aiming to profoundly redefine the balance of the Middle East and a competition with Israel that has reached hot minutes. Turkey at least wants to use the interstate period that has arisen in global affairs on other fronts.
This was seen recently when there was talk of Ankara's move to open natural gas exports to Bulgaria, i.e. the European Union, which may also include Russian gas purchased from Turkey and to be resold. So Turkey projects its economic ambition in any direction in which political or strategic limitations do not condition it. From this point of view, the informality that covers the BRICS group offers perspectives for the expansion of Ankara's economic diplomacy, also in relation to the fact that a similar request for membership has been made by Turkey's sister state, Azerbaijan.
This also shows the dynamism of Turkey's particular multilateralism, a country that plays at multiple tables and sees its position benefiting from the destructuring of international relations, dictated by the proliferation of structures parallel to traditional global bodies. The Brics group is part of a global trend that sees relations between states played out, in many cases, outside the traditional architectures of alliance and cohesion, in a dynamic from which the European Union and NATO largely remain outside. There is often talk of "the West versus the rest" to point out how this context is the result of an erosion of Western influence in the world, but as Turkey and the post-Soviet space expert Leon Rozmarin recalled in June: "It is better to participate in both weddings, so to speak.By building cooperation both with the West and with other key states and structures, Turkey aims to occupy a unique role that not all countries can achieve ” from “Inside Over”
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