Turkey Faces the Balkans: Areas of Possible Cooperation with Poland
Journal: The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs
Year: 2015

IntroductionDespite being in the periphery from the 1920s until the 1990s when compared with European countries, for the past two decades Turkey has rebuilt its international position in its neighbourhood, which encompasses the Caucasus, Balkans, Iran, the Middle East and North Africa. Polish regional policy in the Balkans remains limited, being the offspring of Polish membership in the EU and of Poland's relations with other Central European states. Although recent developments in Turkey's sout