America’s anxiety assumed that it is a contradiction for Turkey to seek good relations with both the West and the Muslim Middle East, and that Ankara’s decision to improve its relations with its Muslim neighbors was motivated primarily by religious and ideological concerns considered important by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). Turkey’s recent tense relations with Iran demonstrate this assumption’s basic fallacy, and point to a non-ideological foreign policy that caters to Turkish national interests as defined by the country’s political elite – including the post-Islamists in power today.
忧心忡忡的美国人假设土耳其不可能同时与西方和中东穆斯林地区发展友好关系，还认为安卡拉当局改善穆斯林邻国关系的决定主要基于执政的正义与发展党（Justice and Development Party）所看重的宗教和意识形态理念。而土耳其最近与伊朗的紧张关系则证明这一推论完全错误，并指明了一个由该国政治精英（包括当前执政的后伊斯兰主义者）所定义的服务于土耳其国家利益的非意识形态外交政策。