State-Business Relations

Abstract

This chapter examines state-business relations in Turkey before and after the Arab uprisings to explore how and to what extent the business community is involved in foreign policy processes. Without ruling out the importance of external shocks, geopolitical imperatives, and the ideological preoccupations of the political leadership, we argue that the weakly institutionalized, fragmented, and lop-sided character of state-business relations undermined the prospects of a development-oriented foreign policy in Turkey in the 2010s. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.