Turkey's former president Abdullah Gul called for the country to pursue a "more realistic" foreign policy, reports said Sunday.
"To be frank, I think it would be beneficial to review our policies in the Middle East and the Arab world with a more realistic approach," Dogan news agency quoted Gul as saying at a post-dinner speech in Istanbul, AFP reported.
"Another big development is promised in the region and if a great chaos emerges we could be faced with surprises that we never considered before." Gul, president from 2007 to 2014, co-founded the ruling Justice and Development Party with current President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
