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For several years, Turkey has been seeking to regain its position as a world and regional power by 2023, the year in which the first centenary of the modern Turkish republic founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is celebrated. Within the framework of its foreign policy plan, Ankara tries to be a relevant actor on the international stage, but few understand what role it really wants to play. We analyze it in this edition of El Debate.
Turkey seeks to take advantage of its geostrategic position and political influence, especially since the conflict in Ukraine began in 2014 and Russia’s invasion of eastern Ukraine in February this year. It is a bridge between the Middle East, the Muslim world and the West. Istanbul, the great Turkish metropolis, is a crossroads from the Black Sea, through the Dardanelles Strait, to the Bosphorus Strait, which gives way to the Sea of Marmara and from there to the Aegean and the world. An obligatory passage for ships sailing from the south of Russia.
In addition, he has shown himself as a mediator, offering Istanbul and its capital Ankara as a place for talks between Ukraine and Russia. It tries to show itself as a neutral country before Moscow, for clear interests, but in the conflict in Eastern Europe it plays both sides, selling drones to Ukraine and buying missiles from Russia, despite the rejection of the European Union and the United States.
Several Turkish cities are also now the refuge of Russian exiles: journalists, thinkers, actors, athletes and ordinary citizens, who do not agree with the Kremlin and with the invasion of Ukraine, have left the country and have started anew in foreign lands. turkish
Faced with sanctions by Brussels and Washington, Turkish banks have become the destination of various fortunes and Russian capital. This country depends on Russian gas, despite the fact that it supplements the supply with gas from Iran and its strategic ally, Azerbaijan. He recently threatened to once again prevent Sweden and Finland from joining NATO if these countries do not comply.
What is Turkey looking for with all this? What part of history do you want to be in? How important can her role be in a possible solution to the Ukrainian conflict and how can her relationship with the Western world be? How much does it influence your peripheral zone in the Middle East? We analyze it in this edition of El Debate with our guests:
– Érika Ruiz Sandoval, internationalist and visiting professor at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching.
– Pablo del Amo, coordinator of Deciphering the War and analyst of geopolitics and international cooperation.
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