Turkey and the Greater Eurasian Partnership: Opportunities and Challenges in “Amalgamated” Regionalism

The Greater Eurasian Partnership (GEP), introduced by Russia in 2015, is a regional integration project that aims to encompass the Economic Union, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Association of Southeast Asian Nations. With this broad spectrum, it embodies various forms regionalism, arranges flexible institutional structure for non-/governmental actors without denting their other affiliations provides commercial, developmental, security opportunities. Such features could also facilitate GEP’s ability enhance Turkey’s recent efforts deepen its relations with Asia. In return, Turkey play several key roles GEP “dialogue partner” status SCO, “Middle Corridor” initiative BRI, well-established links Central Originating from potential mutual interests, study applies theoretical perspective underlining commonalities regionalism categories analyze amalgamated nature highlight significance political-economic priorities undermining traditional ties West.