The Great Game #2 – Rise of the Turks
Forget all about the Saudi-Iran Cold War or the Palestinian question. The real agenda of the Middle East is the rise of the Turkic countries and the ascent of Turkey to Great Power status
Welcome to the second edition of The Great Game – our weekly editorial on everything power, guns and politics! For more geopolitical content check out @RosenvoldGeo on Twitter.
“There’s no problem there”
Those were the words of Recep Tayyip Erdogan when asked about the future of the Black Sea Grain Deal: a deal the Russians were extremely dissatisfied with and the Ukrainians would sacrifice anything – including the Russian Black Sea fleet – to preserve.
Forget all about the Saudi-Iran Cold War or the Palestinian question. The real agenda of the Middle East is the rise of the Turkic countries and the ascent of Turkey to Great Power status
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