Category: Turkey
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Turkey’s Strategic Ambiguity: Asset or Illusion?
What is your most up-to-date and in-depth assessment of this CSIS analysis: Strategic Ambiguity: Erdoğan’s Turkey in a Multipolar World TR-01, Turkey Agent: Below is my updated, in‑depth assessment of the recent Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) analysis Strategic Ambiguity: Erdoğan’s Turkey in a Multipolar World — what I see as its strengths,…
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Turkey: Between Spotlight and Scapegoat
Middle powers whose economic spheres of influence do not align with their military spheres of influence — and whose strength is exaggerated by other states — are being pushed into a deliberate wave of manipulation. I call this method Spotlighting. In my earlier analysis, I underlined that this technique has been actively used against Iran. Portraying…
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Lithuania Backs Turkish Role in EU Defense
On November 20, 2025, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kęstutis Budrys publicly endorsed closer cooperation between the EU and Turkey (Türkiye) in security and defense matters. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, he explicitly voiced support for integrating Turkey and its defense companies into EU defense plans and programs, emphasizing that this would help address…
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Managed Chaos
The Middle East Peace and Security (MEPS) Forum 2025—the 6th edition of this annual event—kicked off on November 18, 2025, in Duhok, capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region (KRG). Hosted by the KRG under Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and the American University of Kurdistan, with partners like Harvard and the Atlantic Council, the forum draws ~120…
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Foreblind: A Middle Power Syndrome
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As the great Aşık Veysel said decades ago: “I walk a long and delicate way,Going day and night.I do not know what state I am in,Going day and night…” Not knowing is a natural process—but one must escape the unconsciousness that comes from being determined not to learn. Although each middle power has its own distinct dynamics…