Turkey to engage in a new foreign policy bid by May

Turkey will launch a foreign policy move through presidential visits to critical countries in May in an attempt to reshape the country's relationships with the international community after months of domestic political tension fractured Turkey's bonds with its traditional allies.
 
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's itinerary in May includes a visit to Washington D.C. for his first in-person meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump after the latter's election and to Sochi for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Erdoğan will also visit Beijing, Brussels and New Delhi. 

Turkey is going on the foreign drive in a bid to repair relationships with a number of key countries, such as the United States, Germany and the Netherlands, which have soured in recent months, while Ankara also wishes to discuss developments in Syria and the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Erdoğan will seek to establish "a new framework" for the Turkish-American relationship in Washington in the wake of his contested win in the April 16 referendum, while also planning to meet with the European Union's two top institutional leaders, Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk, in Brussels to discuss Ankara-Brussels ties in detail. 

First stop India 

Erdoğan's first stop on his tour will be India on April 30, when he will be accompanied by ministers responsible for economy and trade. Erdoğan will participate in Turkey-India Business Forum and will hold political talks with Indian leaders, particularly President Pranab Mukherjee. The agenda during the meeting is expected to be dominated by an improvement of bilateral economic and trade ties. 

Putin-Erdoğan meet on May 3

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