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Feb 9, 2023 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
In the past 15 years, Turkey has become a major global humanitarian actor. Ankara has high-profile operations in Gaza, Somalia, Syria, Pakistan and Myanmar.
Then, why is it struggling with its own emergency response?
You guessed it: Internal power politics.
A thread🧵
We're going to talk about 3 factors:
- AFAD's role as a proxy for AKP humanitarian diplomacy.
- Shaping operations: Erdogan, Gülen and ancièn regime Kemalists.
- Government's forced removal of publicly elected mayors in Turkey's Southeast.