Saturday, December 25, 2021

What Is Turkey Thinking In The Eastern Med?

 https://www.hoover.org/research/what-turkey-thinking-eastern-med#comment-5657758845

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...never mind the Treaty of Lausanne, "tossed out the window" says Erdogan.

That the problem that is the Problem, in Cyprus, has been reduced by "us" (those not "Turkish") to a problem is quite telling.

Such as it is, Turkish diplomacy works by attrition. 100 years does not seem like so long ago, but it appears that it is, given the world's reaction to someone who questions "our" commitment to Universal Principles, and the values that they represent; he may succeed, in defining "Turkishness" as something apart.

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