ISTANBUL, April 28 -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to kick off a foreign tour at the end of this month that enables him to have a series of meetings with top leaders of the world but is not expected to lead to a readjustment in Turkey's foreign policy, a much-needed overhaul to break the country's growing isolation, according to analysts.
Erdogan is scheduled to visit India, Russia, China, the United States and then join other NATO leaders for a summit in Brussels toward the end of May.
"This chain of high-profile visits is unlikely to amount to a reset in Turkish foreign policy," Faruk Logoglu, a former diplomat who held top posts in the Turkish Foreign Ministry, told Xinhua.
Logoglu feels Erdogan's visits "appear to be more a tactical product arising from the necessities of domestic politics and economy rather than being an initial step of a strategic overhaul of Turkey's foreign relations."
Once boasting a policy of "zero problems with neighbors," Turkey has found itself growingly isolated in its region due mainly to its insistence on the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"We are quarrelling with everybody and Turkey is getting more and more isolated," Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), said last month.
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has long been criticized at home for pursuing a sectarian foreign policy in the Middle East that does not serve the country's best interests.
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