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Turkish foreign policy is changing under the AKP government, and particularly under the current Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, an international relations scholar keenly aware of Turkey’s central position in the midst of Afro-Eurasia. Davutoğlu’s foreign policy line, which parallels his academic writings, is founded on three main pillars: maintaining ‘zero problem’ relations with the neighbours, pursuing a proactive and multilateral foreign policy in Turkey’s wider neighbourhood and utilising the Ottoman heritage as a foreign policy asset. The major goal is to transform Turkey into a strong regional, even global actor through the exercise of soft power.