NO! Why?
A super power is built on a couple
of intangibles and clear markers.
Turkey has the markers.
Let's use the UNSC permanent 5 as standard.
Superpowers always have the following
at their disposal :
a large landmass;
Russia, China, USA &
France and the UK were at the time in 1945 still empires,
the farthest reaching ones of all times. Turkey has that.
a large population;
Turkey's is smallish but today still fits between France and UK.
an agricultural base;
of sufficient magnitude to feed its own and export for cash;
Turkey is 24th on the export list, the UK for compaison is 14th
and the feeblest of the 5, Russia is ranked 23rd and could be overtaken by 2025.
and an industrial sector both massive and up-to-date.
Turkey is beginning to make weapons for export which proves the currentness,
it only needs to export more massively everyday products like cars and stuff.
Then, there are 3 intangibles. History, national
character / will / project and circumstances.
I think one word will set the historical value of
Turkey's legitimacy,
empire ... as in Ottoman?
The nation has to have the necessary drive to
attain and maintain that superpower status.
America and China have it in spades, Russia is
not doing as well as the USSR did, UK as Brexit
shows is insular and isolationist by nature and
us French are so unique, we're a gang unto ourselves.
Circumstances can only be enticed, rarely created.
When an enlargement of the UNSC gets closer if
it happens, Turkey has to be ready.
The reasons why you'd think I don't respect or like
Türkyie lie in the last two and relate a lot to Erdogan.
Since he got into power, he disheveled the national
unity, plunged relations with the outside world in a
state of hesitation close to disarray and actually put
the country away from readiness to embrace "luck".
The LeftvsRight and ruralvsintellectual fights hurt too.
So answering the questions
pdf/threads/ Can Turkey become a superpower?
Does Turkey possess the potential of becoming a "Superpower"?
is straightforward enough : Yes.
That doesn't mean it will happen.
Great day to you, Tay.