Dangerous map games around Turkey
Crimea's annexation to the Russian Federation is already a fait accompli. Western authorities are so occupied with the uprising in eastern Ukraine and possible Russian intervention that nobody is talking about the agreement between Russia and Crimea. One would expect more activism from Ankara, given the fact that Crimea was a part of the Ottoman state for three centuries, but the best the Turkish state could do was to give an official medal to the former leader of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis (assembly), Mustafa Abdulcemil Kırımoğlu. With this symbolic move President Abdullah Gül expressed Turkey's support for the cause of the Crimean Tatars. But nothing further was done. Given Turkey's self-isolation from the Western World and its dependency on Russia for oil and gas resources, nothing more could be done, either.
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