Tag: Turkey
The war in Ukraine has become the latest test for Turkey’s regional ambitions in confronting those of Russia, in what has clearly become a “cooperative rivalry.” This is where both sides, despite their opposite views on various regional conflicts ranging from Libya to Syria to the South Caucasus, have worked to manage these conflicts without directly challenging one another.
His diplomatic stunts appear more aimed to protect his business while the ball is precisely over the net than an actual peace-building process.
It is not possible to be at more than one table at the same time, especially in topics such as Ukraine, where tensions are at critical levels, Erkin Öncan writes.
Ankara and Moscow have been reliable partners in the past and that spirit of cooperation now appears to be, with NATO and Russia relations on the line, more important than ever.
