President Erdogan’s style of meeting international challenges is upping the ante – and it almost always works in causing NATO allies to blink
Media mentions – Turkey
It certainly complicates the visit but also makes it more important
Erdogan’s move as a ploy ‘to get the limelight, to be heard, and to perhaps get something in return for lifting his threat of veto.’
Aslı Aydıntaşbaş comments on the Turkish objections towards Sweden’s and Finland’s NATO membership applications
I don’t think that Turkey has made a general change in its Syria policy, I think that these moves are seen as a necessity to respond to domestic pressure
[…] despite Erdogan’s lifelong mission to see the birth of a “pious generation,” this trend may signal the beginning of a movement in the opposite direction
The report seems plausible, even if from such a distance it is not possible to assess whether these drones are actually in use in Ukraine
[The war in Ukraine has provided] a new opportunity to mend Turkey’s ties with the West and a new role for Turkey’s president offering good offices to both sides in the conflict
Turkish officials think these small steps could pave the way for a potential meeting between Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky