"5 Questions for Henrik Liljegren
...5. You spent the last years of your diplomatic career in Turkey and still have a home there. What context should we view recent disputes with the West over energy, the Armenian genocide, NATO leadership, and EU membership? How do we reconcile Turkey’s critical role in NATO and geopolitics generally with its political behavior?
Turkey, like Russia, constitutes what remains of a great empire. An important difference is that Turkey has been more successful than Russia in overcoming its huge loss of territory. In fact Turkey has turned it into an advantage. "
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