Thursday, January 07, 2016

First the Middle East, now Central Asia slipping away from Turkey - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

First the Middle East, now Central Asia slipping away from Turkey

Turkey — which with its deterioration in relations with Syria, Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Israel lost its economic, political and diplomatic influence in the Middle East — is now on the verge of losing Central Asia because of Ankara's crisis with Russia stemming from events in Syria.

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