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President Erdogan is focused on setting Turkey’s foreign policy direction. Key priorities for Ankara include strategic autonomy, enhanced regional influence, economic revitalization, and balancing between NATO and Russia.
Turkey, under Erdogan, has been trying to break out of a disruptive cycle of serial foreign policy crises for some time now.
The Turkish president has three main priorities and the support of an overwhelmingly conservative parliament.
In an interview, Sergei Melkonian discusses Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey’s and Israel’s efforts to expand their reach north of Iran.
After his stunning electoral success, Türkiye’s president now sets his eyes on Istanbul.
Türkiye’s president has just won reelection, but events in northern Syria may prove more complicated than expected.
Former State Department official Aaron David Miller explains how he thinks President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was able to extend his rule into a third decade by using identity politics to hold on to power.
Turkey’s balancing act between Moscow and the West has so far granted the Kremlin an important strategic advantage. Whoever emerges victorious in the presidential election will have to reassess Ankara’s position between NATO and Russia.
The global implications of Türkiye’s presidential election.
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