Recep Tayyip Erdogan has done a good job getting Russia to ease its naval blockade. But mediation has also offered cover for the refusal of Turkey’s president to align with Western sanctions
, her strategic partner and ally for more than half a century,” a Turkish leader once wrote in an American newspaper. “We are determined to maintain our close co-operation with the.” Those words seem from another era. They are, though not such a distant one.
Many in Mr Erdogan’s inner circle celebrate the idea that the West is in decline and a new international order is taking shape. This conviction has become one of the pillars of Turkey’s new foreign policy, says Galip Dalay of Chatham House, a think-tank. A case in point is Turkey’s ongoing romance with Russia. Modern Turkey’s pursuit of good relations with Russia is nothing new. Ataturk reached out to the Bolsheviks for help in his war against Greece.
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