However, the experience of Turkey clearly demonstrates the importance of international cooperation to combat terrorism. Turkey supports all international efforts in this field. We are at the dawn of a new century. The closing days of the twentieth century witnessed momentous changes in the form and substance of relations between nations. The old system is giving way to a new order.
Globalization is the catchword.
Significantly, the security perception of the last fifty years has also been replaced, and in some respects, is in the process of being replaced, by new perceptions and considerations. It is a clich of our times that, along with new threats to security, and concerns over pressing social, economic, and environmental issues, the new order is full of promises for increased cooperation and interaction among nations. This places a historic and moral responsibility on governments and societies to overcome the difficulties in their relations, and to seize the opportunities of the twenty first century. It is this widening and inspiring perspective that Turkish foreign policy is determined to adapt to.