Turkey is trying to firm up its influence in the region at a time of war and revolution by taking with Egypt some of the same measures it used in its opening with Syria just a few years ago, which became the cornerstone of a foreign policy oriented toward the Middle East, rather than Europe.
However, it can be presumed that Turkey has always had a foreign policy oriented towards Europe, and a strong interest in making itself accepted as a European country.
Friends who have spoken with the media in recent weeks say he plans to open up a foreign-policy oriented think tank with his former advisors.
You know, the kind that help visitors from foreign places orient themselves when they're feeling lost in big cities.
Heroines are usually portrayed (sometimes by female impersonators) in a high, thin voice; heroes use a raucous rasping tone quite foreign to traditionally oriented Western ears but, again, not unlike some of the vocal techniques required by 20th-century Western avant-garde composers.
There seems to be a relationship between greater democratization and Eastern oriented foreign policy initiatives throughout Turkish political history.
The use of highly skilled, more clinically oriented, foreign health workers has to some extent curtailed capacity development of national staff.
Democrats, meanwhile, once hoped to boast of a positive Middle East foreign-policy agenda oriented towards supporting new Arab democracies and reaching a peace settlement between Israel and Palestine.
It is a weekly routine at brothels across Cartagena, whose thriving and legal prostitution business, much of it oriented toward foreign tourists, has become the focus of international attention since a group of American Secret Service agents became embroiled in scandal over allegations of taking prostitutes to their hotel rooms.
Timber, hydropower, and iron ore constitute the resource base of an economy heavily oriented toward foreign trade.
Almost immediately, the new Karađorđević government aligned itself with the Russian Empire and oriented its foreign policy away from its long time patron, the Habsburgs, and Austria-Hungary.
