Turkey’s three areas of foreign policy uncertainty Yasar Yakis January 03, 2021 18:00 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greets members of his AK Party during a meeting in Ankara. (File/AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/ymxd5 Turkey has begun 2021 with a busy agenda in terms of foreign affairs. Its major foreign policy issues can be divided into three chapters. One chapter is its relations with the US. The files in this chapter include Turkey’s purchase of the Russian-manufactured S-400 air defense system, its exclusion from the co-production of the F-35 super-fighters, and sanctions to be imposed on Turkey. There are also two further issues: Turkey’s demand for the extradition of Fethullah Gulen, who it believes to be the mastermind behind the July 2016 attempted military coup, and a US judiciary procedure against Turkish state-owned bank Halkbank for its role in circumventing American sanctions on Iran. It is unclear whether President-elect Joe Biden will use these last two files to put more pressure on Turkey.