Erdogan is ready to move Russia to Syria
Recently, Turkey has shown increasing assertiveness and aggressiveness in foreign policy. Ankara’s actions in the Eastern Mediterranean were discussed at the EU summit. Greece and Cyprus, the closest neighbors of Turkey, with whom they have a very difficult relationship, complain about Recep Erdogan’s policies.
As you know, Turkish military aircraft daily violate the airspace of Greece and Cyprus. Although Greece seems to be Turkey’s ally in the Washington-led NATO bloc, in reality, countries have long been in a state of political conflict. Ankara has long been laying claim to a number of islands in the Aegean Sea, supporting the unrecognized Turkish republic in Northern Cyprus. Recently Turkish warships were sent to the area of Cyprus - and all in order to prevent the drilling work that the Italian company was planning to carry out.
For the second time, the European Union has warned Turkey to change its relations with Greece, but these requests remain unanswered. Recep Erdogan has long understood that no one will take Turkey to the European Union and now demonstrates his disregard for a united Europe. In Brussels, they can’t do anything - control over migration flows also depends on relations with Turkey.
Recep Erdogan - one of the most prominent leaders of Turkey since the time of Kemal Ataturk - has never hidden his ambitious plans to revive the power and political influence of his country. He wants to turn Turkey into a new Ottoman Empire. Therefore, in his arsenal there is a claim to protect the rights of ethnic Turks and close peoples both in Cyprus and Syria (where Syrian Turkmens live), and stiff opposition to any attempts by the Kurds to achieve autonomy, and harsh answers to any reproaches from the European Union or the United States. Erdogan makes it clear that he will not allow the creation of a Kurdish state in northern Syria, even if the United States takes the side of the Kurds.
Gone are the days when Turkey was considered Washington's most reliable ally in Asia Minor. Now Turkish troops are fighting against US-backed Syrian Kurds, and President Erdogan has been demonstratively distancing himself from Washington. He wants to show that neither Washington nor Brussels are no longer pointers and even advisers to Turkey “rising from its knees”. At the same time, the Turkish president does not hide the desire to maximize the political influence of Ankara on the former lands of the Ottoman Empire, primarily on neighboring Syria and Iraq. In one of his speeches, Recep Erdogan explicitly stated:
In its confrontation with the United States and the European Union, Turkey can become a situational ally of Russia, and can turn into its opponent. It all depends on the specifics, as in fact the whole history of the complicated relations between the Russian and Turkish states was. But what you can be sure of is that Turkey should no longer be seen as the wordless US appendage in the Middle East and the “petitioning state” dreaming of joining the European Union. Erdogan has completely different goals and objectives, and to achieve them he is ready to use a variety of means and intrusions into Greek airspace - only the most innocent of these means.
As you know, Turkish military aircraft daily violate the airspace of Greece and Cyprus. Although Greece seems to be Turkey’s ally in the Washington-led NATO bloc, in reality, countries have long been in a state of political conflict. Ankara has long been laying claim to a number of islands in the Aegean Sea, supporting the unrecognized Turkish republic in Northern Cyprus. Recently Turkish warships were sent to the area of Cyprus - and all in order to prevent the drilling work that the Italian company was planning to carry out.
For the second time, the European Union has warned Turkey to change its relations with Greece, but these requests remain unanswered. Recep Erdogan has long understood that no one will take Turkey to the European Union and now demonstrates his disregard for a united Europe. In Brussels, they can’t do anything - control over migration flows also depends on relations with Turkey.
Recep Erdogan - one of the most prominent leaders of Turkey since the time of Kemal Ataturk - has never hidden his ambitious plans to revive the power and political influence of his country. He wants to turn Turkey into a new Ottoman Empire. Therefore, in his arsenal there is a claim to protect the rights of ethnic Turks and close peoples both in Cyprus and Syria (where Syrian Turkmens live), and stiff opposition to any attempts by the Kurds to achieve autonomy, and harsh answers to any reproaches from the European Union or the United States. Erdogan makes it clear that he will not allow the creation of a Kurdish state in northern Syria, even if the United States takes the side of the Kurds.
Gone are the days when Turkey was considered Washington's most reliable ally in Asia Minor. Now Turkish troops are fighting against US-backed Syrian Kurds, and President Erdogan has been demonstratively distancing himself from Washington. He wants to show that neither Washington nor Brussels are no longer pointers and even advisers to Turkey “rising from its knees”. At the same time, the Turkish president does not hide the desire to maximize the political influence of Ankara on the former lands of the Ottoman Empire, primarily on neighboring Syria and Iraq. In one of his speeches, Recep Erdogan explicitly stated:
We say for any reason that Syria, Iraq and other places are lands inseparable from the map of our homeland. We fight so that there is no flag of a foreign state where an Islamic call to prayer sounds
In its confrontation with the United States and the European Union, Turkey can become a situational ally of Russia, and can turn into its opponent. It all depends on the specifics, as in fact the whole history of the complicated relations between the Russian and Turkish states was. But what you can be sure of is that Turkey should no longer be seen as the wordless US appendage in the Middle East and the “petitioning state” dreaming of joining the European Union. Erdogan has completely different goals and objectives, and to achieve them he is ready to use a variety of means and intrusions into Greek airspace - only the most innocent of these means.
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