India Blocks Turkey’s BRICS Entry Due to Pakistan Relations - All You Have To Know 

India has opposed Turkey from joining the BRICS alliance. This comes as Turkey has been very close to its friend Pakistan, a longstanding rival of India. The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had submitted membership applications ahead of the 16th BRICS summit, in an effort to increase Turkey's influence on international affairs. India's opposition has once again halted Turkey's aspirations.

The expanding bloc of BRICS an acronym that stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa has been stretching its influence on world geography where all the countries are trying to join this bloc in quest for possible allies with those countries in terms of economic and political relations. But Turkey had ambitions that were cut off by the fact that India is a country that has long-standing differences with Pakistan.

It seems that India for Turkey is worried about the policy of Turkey towards Pakistan, according to Sinan Ulgen, former Turkish diplomat and foreign policy expert at the Carnegie Foundation of Turkey, while diplomatic tension between India and Turkey by means of blocking Turkey's BRICS membership is becoming one of the main factors.

Erdogan's desire to enter BRICS is part of the plan of increasing Turkey's "strategic autonomy" by associating himself with the policies pursued by Russian President Vladimir Putin. In addition, the non-friendly relations between Turkey and the EU have given Erdogan the impetus to pursue diverse alternatives for alliances, some of which are BRICS.

Political analysts believe Erdogan requires membership in BRICS for him to make an early political claim. Erdogan may prove capable of balancing NATO and BRICS; hence, he's going to be the key global mediator by allowing him to become a member of BRICS.

However, critics argue that Erdogan's foreign policy, in close ties with Russia and Pakistan, isolated Turkey from the rest of the international world. In its efforts to forge closer alliances outside of the West, it has faced resistance from major global powers such as India, who are uneasy with Ankara's alliances with their adversaries.

The rejection of Turkey by BRICS marks one of the emerging contours of contemporary geopolitics that shape countries' relationships with one another. Even though Erdogan is working to enhance the standing of Turkey with membership in BRICS, New Delhi's continued rigidity over the same issues shows the difference in diplomatic ties with a competitor like Pakistan in terms of broader geopolitical ambitions.

It makes one wonder what will happen with Turkey's future strategy, in relation to the West, BRICS nations, or neighboring states. Currently at least, Erdogan cannot become both part of NATO and BRICS as Turkey is facing stiffening diplomatic challenges on multiple fronts.

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