In ideal world, the best option is to be isolationist. Unfortunately, Turkiye has no such option, not now , not before and nor in the future. Turkiye has no natural wealth, nukes and things that are required for " island" existence.
Worse thing is that, no matter what other countries want Turkish territory. In fact, they want it more now than 50 60 years ago.
So can " progressive" world in reality regress very rapidly with the most destructive ideas.
So Turkiye needs some sort of alliance, unfortunately what is out there is best described as rubbish.
It enough just to look at few parameters in Somalia and see that is truly waist of time.
What is to be done there???
Whatever it may be , more or less the same problem would be here it is just that Turkiye managed in the last 20 30 years make itself reasonably strong.
Be it Islamist or not Kurds will be there and if they could have co operate with Armenians even in ww1 what is to be done there? Apart from waiting for another war and doing Enver on them?
As of Turkish Islamists? I know some of them, they are nice but very very naive and romantic people.
I wrote before, I don't believe that since Abdul Hamid death that there has been any real Islamists , as I am not really secularist I have no other options than to be fascist.
Anyway the situation is so bad and complex that the mindes of Karpov and Kramnik are needed. I am afraid that there are no such studios and analytical minds in the islamic world.
I am not for Islamist world, after all of they are not together with themselves, what possibly I can do there? Just endanger myself for their BS?
The good thing would be to hammer those Houthi midgets, though