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This paper investigates the continuities and ruptures in Turkish foreign policy during the post-2002 Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) era, with a particular focus on the decline in enthusiasm for EU membership and the corresponding decline of Eurocentricity in Turkish foreign relations. The author argues that the while the AKP government has maintained its commitment to a proactive multilateral foreign policy, it has shifted to a policy of "loose Europeanization" and to an Euro-Asian paradigm that no longer takes EU membership as its core strategic objective.