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What ideas drive Turkish foreign policy? Think lebensraum | The Jewish Chronicle

What ideas drive Turkish foreign policy? Think lebensraum

By Michael Daventry, August 14, 2014
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The architect of Turkey's foreign policy is a pan-Islamist academic who considers Israel a "geopolitical tumour" and believes his country needs lebensraum.

That is according to an analysis of Ahmet Davutoglu's writing in his former guise as a university professor in the 1990s, before he entered politics as Recep Tayyip Erdogan's foreign affairs adviser.

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