Free of domestic politicking, Turkish foreign policy may have once focused only on promoting national interests in a dangerous and turbulent geopolitical environment. Today, however, it has become an extension of the political struggle between the Islamist government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the country's secular opposition. This struggle resurfaced again this week during a visit to Egypt by senior deputies from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), who also happen to be among Turkey’s most prominent former diplomats.
The delegation included Faruk Logoglu, a seasoned diplomat who has served as ambassador to Washington, and Osman Koruturk who served as Turkish ambassador to Berlin and Paris before retiring and joining the CHP in 2010.
