SELECTED INSTRUMENTS OF TURKISH SOFT POWER IN EUROPE

Abstract

The article addresses Turkey's soft power, with an emphasis on its institutional dimension. The discussion focuses on the European continent and aims to show the resources of Turkish soft power and institutions' activities for its implementation in the European context. The first part of the paper is devoted to the methodological assumptions and the notion of soft power. Then, the evolution of the Republic's interest in the use of soft power, the resources of Turkish soft power, indicating to what extent they can be effective to European countries, and the activities of selected institutions that are the tools of soft power in Europe are described