"Europe can't afford to alienate Turkey
European policy driving the geopolitically sensitive Turkey into the arms of Russia and Iran is ironic, absurd and shortsighted
Turkey's 'no' last month (a vote cast together with Brazil) to the new sanctions against Iran approved in the United Nations security council dramatically reveals the full extent of the country's estrangement from the west. Are we, as many commentators have argued, witnessing the consequences of the so-called 'neo-Ottoman' foreign policy of Turkey's Justice and Development party (AKP) government, which is supposedly aimed at switching camps and returning to the country's oriental Islamic roots?"
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