The liberal international order that defined the post-Cold War era has suffered dual erosion: of legitimacy and functionality. Instead, Trump operated as a disruptive force, compelling the existing order to abandon its rhetorical claims to universality and inevitability. The longevity of the administration led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey is inextricably linked to this international paralysis. Today, Turkey remains in political limbo; it is not a traditional parliamentary democracy, a coherent presidential system or a strictly defined authoritarian state. We are in an intermediate phase of history, where the old liberal order is receding but the new one has yet to emerge.