Turkey’s dance
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar could be seen as a return to the bad old Sunni alliance against Iran in the region. For the time being, it is not clear if the move is part of a Turkish governmental attempt to influence the new U.S. administration, or a response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s new Mideast policy. Although Trump’s new Mideast policy is far from clarity and coherence, his verbal attack on Iran must have encouraged the anti-Iran alliance in the region. Besides, Turkey’s governing circles may be thinking that it is also a chance to balance Russia’s growing power in Syria and its recent pro-Kurdish stance.
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