This article deals with Turkey’s status politics since the 2000s, by employing an aspirational constructivist approach that links social psychology with social constructivism in international relations. It focuses on the temporal side of status, stemming from historical identity construction in Turkish foreign policy (TFP) rhetoric and practices under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) since 2002. Turkey’s status politics is motivated by its past legacies rather than by a peer-to-peer comparison. Therefore, different variances and practices of identity politics in TFP offer valuable insights into its status-seeking practices. The article offers five images of the past that define various role sets and status claims for Turkey.

本文采用理想的建构主义方法，将社会心理学与国际关系中的社会建构主义联系起来，探讨了土耳其自 2000 年代以来的地位政治。它侧重于地位的时间方面，源于自 2002 年以来正义与发展党 (JDP) 统治下土耳其外交政策 (TFP) 言辞和实践中的历史身份建构。土耳其的地位政治是由其过去的遗产而不是通过对等比较。因此，TFP 中身份政治的不同差异和实践为其寻求地位的实践提供了宝贵的见解。这篇文章提供了五个过去的图像，这些图像定义了土耳其的各种角色集和地位要求。