It has the means to increase its presence in its near geography.

- Lots of failed states within its reach that welcomes foreign intervention.

- Large army.

- Somewhat large economy.

- Doesn't have the colonial baggage that most western countries have (in the Muslim geography at least).

- Political ambition to increase its leverage in the geopolitical stage (because it's highly affected by it and doesn't really require democratic process to take aciton)

- Has somewhat of a positive image in these countries that transfers into a soft power.

- Increasing military industry that benefits from military spending.

- Has somewhat of an autonomy from the Western block to move independently and without approval of the international community but still a part of it to not heavily sanctioned to oblivion (although it paid the price couple of times such as in Cyprus, Syria, etc. which somewhat contributed to develop its national military industry and kinda backfired)

- Has historical familiarity with most of the regions.

- Little to no public opposition to it. I could say it's one of the things even the people against the ruling government supports it and main opposition is criticized when they don't support the military operations outside the borders.

- Has an experienced army that fought against terrorism for long years.

- Doesn't really have natural resources so needs to put its large military to use to gain political and economic benefits in resource rich countries. And perhaps aiming to establish a neo-imperial security architecture in its region (similar to USA but in a smaller scale, where it provides protection to failed states and rich countries without functioning military to protect itself from inside and outside threats but gain political and economic benefits in return such as a cut from natural resource sales or direct investments)

- If it doesn't increase its presence, Russia, Israel, USA, Iran or other actors could increase their influence dangerously close to its borders (and perhaps even arm ethnic minorities to threat Turkey and use this as a political leverage, limiting its political autonomy as result)

- We need to remember the geopolitical factors that gave birth to its imperial legacy are still somewhat relevant today and perhaps will become even more so as world move from unipolarity to multipolarity.