Turkish Interests in Eurasia – The Door to the Central Asian Corridor Stands Open
Written by Dominik Pietzcker and Serdar Yurtcicek In a few weeks, this year’s NATO summit will take place at the Presidential Palace in Ankara. The host is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who does not enjoy a particularly good reputation in the West due to his authoritarian style of governance and his unilateral security policy moves. Yet Turkey’s interests are directed not only westward, but also toward Central Asia. During the peak of the Syrian refugee crisis in 2015/2016, Erdoğan played a remarkable role. The EU paid over six billion euros to ensure that Turkey would not allow civil war…
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