The paper analyzes three approaches to the foreign policy of President Erdoğan in the period from 2014. until today. In the initial phase of the presidential mandate, Erdoğan focused on multidirectional and multidimensional multilateralism under the slogan of "zero problems with neighbors" and "strategic depth" with an emphasis on relations with the EU, which was soon replaced by unilateral assertive realism based on balancing, strategic autonomy and hard power, with a stronger Middle Eastern engagement, emphasizing Islamic identity and the third "emerging approach" after the start of the war in Ukraine, where Turkey continues with unilateral assertive realism, but also returns to multidimensional multilateralism, which is largely dependent on Erdoğan's personalized foreign policy . Turkey is economically and militarily dependent on traditional relations with the USA and NATO, as it maintains defense cooperation with them. It is connected with European countries through trade and foreign investments, and it cooperates with Russia and Iran in matters of energy. On the other hand, Turkey is an important link of stability in the region and the EU, because the flow of the migrant wave depends on it. With strategic autonomy, Turkey aims for a hierarchical positioning among the non-Western great powers through flexible alliances partly in agreement with the USA, and it skilfully uses the same foreign policy expression to mobilize the domestic electoral base. Turkey has the status of a middle power and uses various foreign policy strategies and balancing actions with the aim of consolidating the regional status and establishing the domestic base of the AKP with dependence on the West and NATO.