How Far Can Turkey Challenge NATO and the EU in 2020?
Source:Carnegie Europe Date:31Jan2020
Marc Pierini gives a tour-de-force of the new face of Turkish diplomacy and the challenges it presents to NATO and EU. Yet, he is wrong on one point. Erdogan’s agressive diplomatic posture is not supported by a vast majority of Turks. The alliance with Russia, too, is fraying rapidly, because Putin fails to stop Assad from approachig the Turkish border in Idlib. Nevertehless, this is an article worth reading to understand Erdogan’s ambitions.