Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Erdogan: 'Kosovo Is Turkey' - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Erdogan: 'Kosovo Is Turkey'

By: Yavuz Baydar for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on October 28.

In a recent article, "Turkey's Lost Illusions," adviser and professor Dominique Moisi wrote that Turkey is now more in search of itself than it is of Europe. According to him, the end of the Soviet-era was a wake-up call for Turkey to revive a long-lost dream of (re)shaping its neighborhood under the banner of neo-Ottomanism. The endeavor, recently encapsulated in the foreign policy slogan of "zero problems with neighbors" turns out to have been an unsuccesful exercise based on costly trial and error.

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