A Paradoxical Relationship from 2000 to 2022

• Robert O. Freedman ^[1]
  1. [1] John Hopkins University
• Localización: Maghreb review: Majallat al-Maghrib, ISSN 0309-457X, Vol. 48, Nº. 2, 2023, págs. 163-181
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • As Putin himself has noted, Erdogan, despite Turkey’s dependence on Russia for natural gas, is not a pawn of Moscow, as demonstrated by Russian-Turkish policy clashes over Syria, Libya, the Azeri-Armenian war, and Turkish military aid to Ukraine. On the other hand, however, Erdogan has been highly disruptive to the NATO alliance as his purchase of Russian SAM-400 air defense missiles, his conflicts with fellow NATO members Greece and the US, and his deliberate delay of the accession of Sweden and Finland to the NATO alliance demonstrate. All of these actions work to the benefit of Moscow, whether Erdogan intended them to do so or not.