Davutoğlu: Critics of ties with US suffer from inferiority complex

“The problem here is psychological, not political,” Davutoğlu said in an interview aired by the private NTV television channel on Monday night. “Some circles still suffer from an inferiority complex. The assumption that every decision you make on your own, of your own free will, will be punished by someone reflects the psychology of an immature child.”

“Everyone has to respect to the leaders and governments that derive their power from their people,” the foreign minister added. According to Davutoğlu, his government has been credited with a “revolution” in the way foreign policy is conducted, saying before the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) came to power in 2002, “a government was considered to be on the wrong path whenever it drifted away from US policy.”

“Throughout the past 11 years, we have never calculated which actor would react in what ways when we made our foreign policy decisions. We have tried to do what is right,” he said.