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Is Erdogan shifting Turkey's foreign policy back to the West?

Following a decade-plus of fractured relations with key Western partners, including the US, Turkey’s President Erdogan has made some moves to seemingly rebuild these relationships. His decision on Sweden’s NATO membership at the summit in Vilnius and the toning down of his aggressive posturing in the Aegean against Greece are but a few examples. Despite this, many in NATO, as well as officials in the US government, openly question Erdogan’s commitment to the West. Expert Sinan Ciddi joins Thanos Davelis to break down that while some of these moves by Erdogan’s may appear promising - for now - we should abandon the notion that Erdogan’s Turkey will anchor itself with the West.

Sinan Ciddi is a non-resident senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), where he contributes to FDD’s Turkey Program and Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP). He is also an Associate Professor of Security Studies at the Command and Staff College-Marine Corps University and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Read Sinan Ciddi’s latest piece here: Chasing The Mirage Of Turkey’s Western Orientation

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