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Erdogan’s Russian Pipe Dreams
While Turkey’s President dreams big power dreams, Putin plays Erdogan like a fiddle.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the opening of Russia’s international air show, MAKS, in late August as the guest of his counterpart Vladimir Putin.
- Aykan Erdemir
- the Globalist
Despite its NATO membership, Turkey has continued its slide into the Kremlin’s sphere of influence, as illustrated by Putin pitching his country’s Su-35 and Su-57 jets to Erdogan while Russian cargo planes landed in…
Even so, Erdogan’s visit to Moscow was less about shopping for Russian military hardware than it was about his desperation for…