Turkey is considering to join the BRICS bloc of nations which it foresees as part of future multipolar global system.
“We consider BRICS as one of important associations of the future multipolar global system because of that reason and Turkey’s entry to BRICS will not restrain Turkey but on the contrary, it will expand its foreign political capabilities,” said Numan Kurtulmus Speaker of the Grand National Assembly.
“Turkey’s presence in BRICS will indeed make a much serious contribution to the cause of global peace. This is because Turkey is the country that simultaneously participates in many formats of international cooperation,” he said.
Turkey is the member of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Organization of Turkic States, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, NATO and the candidate to the European Union, the politician said.
“It is also the country desirous to develop new alternative instruments of foreign policy,” Kurtulmus stressed.
“This will enrich Turkey as regards foreign policy instruments and we hope participation of Turkey in such organization will promote strengthening of global peace in conditions of the multipolar global system,” he noted.
“Turkey, having the geostrategic position, being the bridge between the East and the West, having the cultural past and prospects for the future, has entered the process of transformation into a regional actor and even into the actor playing an efficient role in the global system,” he said.
The next Brics summit is scheduled to take place in Kazan, Russia, from October 22 to 24, where Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to attend.
If Turkey is admitted, it would become the first North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) member to join the bloc.
Erdogan expressed Turkey’s desire to deepen ties with Brics in his speech at the 79th UNGA session in New York saying, “We maintain our will to develop our relations with Brics, which brings together emerging economies.”
