Turkey's foreign policy is usually represented as essentially peaceful, using diplomacy and multilateralism in the resolution of its conflicts with other states. Here, Umut Uzer offers a necessary corrective to this standard analysis by revealing the Kemalist influence in Turkey's state ideology. This defined the identity of the state as Turkish, embracing both Turkish and Turkic peoples as ""Turks,"" and resulting in responsibilities towards Turks residing beyond its borders and a more engaged foreign policy that ranged from declarations of support for ethnic kin outside Turkey to...