Recasting the OIC: Türkiye’s Strategic Bid to Turn a Symbolic Forum into an Instrument of Collective Agency
Türkiye’s stewardship of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is used to shift the body from declaratory diplomacy toward trade integration, structured advocacy against Islamophobia, and technical capacity building. The piece examines how Ankara leverages its institutional footprint, economic weight, and diaspora politics to reposition the OIC as a functional actor in a more fractured global order, and where structural limits to this project are already visible.