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by Burak Bekdil • October 3, 2018
at 5:00 am
- Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Chinese President Xi Jinping are
discussing more trade -- and in their local currencies,
rebuffing the dollar.
- As of now, Turkey
sees the United States as an ungrateful ally and Russia is
Turkey's new love affair. For Erdoğan, it is still
"Russia time."
- Germany needs
Turkey's cooperation in halting the flow of Islamic jihadists
currently stationed in Syria but who may always use Turkish
territory to reach the EU. Turkey needs German technology,
investment and money.
The
continuous decline of democratic values and civil liberties in
Turkey will remain a problem between Ankara and most Western
capitals, including Berlin. During the recent state visit to
Germany of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (left), Germany's
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (right) publicly criticized
Turkey's holding of German citizens, among others, as political
prisoners. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)
Turkey's President does it all the time. In 2009,
then-prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused China of genocide
for the deaths of hundreds of Uighur Turks. Less than a decade
later, with his newfound "Eurasianism," Erdoğan's Turkey
and President Xi Jinping's China are discussing more trade -- and
in their local currencies, rebuffing the dollar .
In 2015, the Turkish Air Force shot down a Russian
Air Force fighter jet along Turkey's troubled border with Syria.
Russia responded strongly in 2016 by imposing punishing sanctions
on Turkey. At the time, Erdoğan was courting Washington. In fear of
further -- and even military -- punishments from Moscow, Erdoğan
described Turkey's relations with Washington as a "strategic
partnership."
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