September 16, 2014 | Quote
Turkey and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
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Turkey’s support of terror groups signals its continuing estrangement from the West. Jonathan Schanzer described this in Where the Shadiest Players Find a Home, which appeared in the September 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine:
“With [Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan’s ascent to presidency, and with his former foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, taking over as prime minister, the architects of Turkey’s dangerous foreign policies have consolidated power. This means that Turkey is more than likely to continue to drift from the Western orbit, and to resemble some of the more dangerous actors in the Middle East.”
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