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The epicenter of this scientific paper is put on an extremely important component, the manifestation of Turkey's foreign policy, which is based on the doctrine of strategic depth and reflections of this vision in the relations between Albania and Turkey, as well as the influence of Islam in the dimensioning of such relations. This paper first presents a sublimated historical overview of the Albanian-Turkish relations after the end of the Cold War, consequently using descriptive, analytical, induction, deduction, and comparative methods defining the new vision in Turkish foreign policy by presenting the elementary principles of the doctrine of strategic depth. The basic parameters of the political, economic, cultural-educational, and religious reflections on this vision in the Turkish-Albanian relations will also be analyzed. Consequently, we give an insight into the Turkish foreign policy at the beginning of the 21st century, which reflects the economic trends between the two countries and highlights the degree of geopolitical and sociocultural influences on the relations between Turkey and Albania based on the Turkish foreign policy doctrine and Islam as determinant benchmarks of the new direction. The main purpose of this scientific paper is to emphasize the general conceptual reorientation of the Turkish-Albanian relations dimensioned from the prism of Eurotalivism to Islamic solidarity and neo-Otomanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]