INSTEAD OF TURNING EAST, TURKEY IS GOING IT ALONE
NICK DANFORTH FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Since Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in late 2002, there’s been talk about the West “losing Turkey.” Now, amidst mutual recrimination and the frightening possibility of direct U.S.-Turkish military confrontation in northern Syria, Washington’s worst fears about Turkish foreign policy seem dangerously close to being realized.
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