Power - Virtuous Power
Notion of power which implies a full commitment to the safeguard of human rights and justice and whose objectives should be pursued and achieved by mutual cooperation, even in cases of military intervention. Virtuous power is not ambitious or expansionist in any sense and it is a power that knows what is wrong and what is right and is capable of standing behind it. In April 2012, the Turkish President Abdullah Gül gave a speech in front of the country’s highest military functionaries on the need for Turkey to become a virtuous power in a region whose fragile equilibrium is threatened by sociopolitical instability.
