Like a lot of Americans with Trump or Turks with Erdogan, it seems like some moderate pro-Israel voices are struggling to come to terms with people actually making judgements about the country based on the words and actions of its elected leader
As @hbarkey points out and many of us have witnessed with Turkey, it’s harder to get a fair hearing for your legitimate security interests when people see your government as part of the problem
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This gives the impression that everything on the blue side of the color scale is majority Russian
Maps are ideally suited to essentialist visions that divide people into discrete, ready-to-clash units, each with its own color & territory. As a result they offer an ideal metaphor for those who saw conflict as more natural, or more interesting, all along foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/14/map…
Italy has played an unexpected and oddly crucial role at key moments in Turkish diplomatic history...
In 1919, Italy's push to expand its territorial claims in Anatolia led Britain to back a Greek landing in Izmir, triggering the Turkish War of Independence.
In the 1930s, Italy's growing power in the Eastern Mediterranean created the alignment of interests between Britain and Russia that made Turkish control of the Bosporus through the Montreux Convention possible
Turkey's maritime claims in the Eastern Mediterranean make sense the moment you realize that Crete doesn't count and Cyprus doesn't exist.
Again, my position is that if fairness had anything to do with this Malawi should have an EEZ, but that's not the system the international community decided on.
The angriest responses here seem to be from people explaining why Crete doesnt count.