Türkiye'nin BRICS ile ilişki kurma girişimi "Foreign Policy" dergisinde makale konusu oldu. Turkey's BRICS Bak-lancing Act - by Jorge Heine- October 23, 2024

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Turkey’s BRICS Balancing Act

By applying to join the group, Ankara is signaling to the West that it should not be taken for granted.

By Jorge Heine, a research professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, and Ariel González Levaggi, the director of the Center for International Studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.

Erdogan walks toward the camera; the wall to his right reads: "BRICS."

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives to attend a session during the 10th BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 27, 2018. GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP via Getty Images

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October 23, 2024, 10:50 AM

This week’s BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, features a new participant: Turkey. A Kremlin official leaked last month that Ankara had applied to join the grouping, following repeated expressions of interest over the years. A spokesperson for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) then conceded that “a process is underway.”

The BRICS grouping undertook a major expansion recently, adding Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates in January, with Saudia Arabia still mulling whether to join. The acronym stands for the group’s original members: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa