Turkey’s Arab Spring Problem
By Peter Vine
Turkey's failure to anticipate or shape the Arab spring could mark the end of its "zero problems with neighbors" policy.
When Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoğlu issued Turkey’s final warning to Syria on August 15 it marked the end of an era in Turkish relations with the Middle East. Davutoğlu had visited the authoritarian Middle Eastern country sixty times in his post as chief Turkish diplomat and many of them were in crisis talks over the protests that had swept the country in the past six months.
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