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GFK Fellow, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center. Mideast Politics. Turkey. Maps. Historical Randomness. Retweets are not endorsements nor necessarily sarcastic.
Jul 11, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Ankara has mastered the art of creating problems and leveraging them to partially reverse the damage done by the previous problems it created Anyways, happy to take all the good news we can get, but this whole approach just guarantees more frustration
Jan 21, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Seems like a slightly misleading color scheme: washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/… This gives the impression that everything on the blue side of the color scale is majority Russian
Aug 27, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
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.
Aug 7, 2020 9 tweets 2 min read
Turkey's maritime claims in the Eastern Mediterranean make sense the moment you realize that Crete doesn't count and Cyprus doesn't exist. Image 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.