But, in the last few years, the Europeans, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, have de facto slammed the door to European Union accession in Turkey’s face. As a result, Turkey has embraced a “neo-Ottoman” foreign policy, in which the Arab world – even more than the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Balkans – plays the central role.
与此同时，欧洲正深陷于内部危机当中。但在过去几年中，由德国总理默克尔和法国总统萨科齐带领下的欧洲人事实上当着土耳其人的面关上了加入欧盟的大门。于是土耳其转而采取了一项“准土耳其帝国”外交政策，把重心放在了阿拉伯世界——甚至包括高加索，中亚和巴尔干地区。