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Turkey’s Dangerous New Exports: Pan-Islamist, Neo-Ottoman Visions and Regional Instability
There is certainly no shortage of writings on Turkey today regarding that country’s “drift” away from its Western orientation.
Some who espouse this argument frame the consequences in terms of Turkey’s increased ties to China.
- Marwa Maziad, Jake Sotiriadis
- Middle East Intitute
While Turkey itself has launched an “Asia Anew” policy, the outsized focus on this and other alleged signs of Turkey’s “drift from the West” distracts from the very palpable effects…
Turkey’s increasingly reckless foreign policy is on full display — from weaponizing refugees to extort the European Union to exporting mercenary Jihadist fighters to Libya.
These are hardly the actions of a…