Foreign aids made by Turkey in the context of soft power: The example of TİKA, Kızılay, AFAD and YEE

As a result of the changes in the international conjuncture after the Cold War, Turkey has started to follow a multi-faceted and active policy in the concept of foreign aid as well as in its foreign policy. In the study, first of all, brief information about the concepts of power and soft power is given. While discussing the definition, scope and development of the concept of foreign aid in the historical process, answers are sought to questions such as for what purposes foreign aid is provided and how it is received by the recipient countries. Then, the relationship between soft power and foreign aid is evaluated and explained. Foreign aid, which is a soft power tool, is discussed in a chronological integrity in the light of various examples from the Ottoman Empire to the present. In the final analysis, in order to reveal the impact and importance of foreign aid, developments in Turkish Foreign Policy and institutions and organizations that are Turkey's soft power sources are also mentioned.