Abstract. In 2021, the Turkish economy and financial sector faced rising inflation and a fall of national currency. In foreign policy, President Erdogan maintained a course to strengthen positions in the region, although in a number of areas the country had to moderate its appetites. Turkey retained the ideological attitudes of «moderate Islamism», neo-Ottomanism and Pan-Turkism. In the captured areas in northern Syria, Turkey was forced to weaken its position in the Idlib region, but continued to strike Kurdish military units. In Libya Turkey had to begin the withdrawal of Syrian Islamist detachments. There has been a continued confrontation with the EU over both illegal drilling in the Mediterranean and the situation in the field of human rights in the country.