Turkey – Pakistan Relations

... inspired by Ataturk.[9] These reforms aimed to liberalise the state; from paving roads, promoting media freedom, encouraging female participation in society, religious liberty, to introducing new laws, and clamping down on “honour killings”. The post-Cold War era brought these two nations to navigate different foreign policies on political matters, while entering a new world and a new era. 9/11 and the Rise of Erdogan Within a unipolar world structure, the United States dominated the world, with growing enemies emerging in the Middle East, particularly Afghanistan, a country massively ignored by the U.S. since Soviet withdrawal. In the 1990s, Islamist extremism ...