Tag: Erdogan
How Turkey Builds Power Through Africa
Turkey's growing presence in Africa is often described as another foreign power crowding onto a busy continent. That understates what Ankara is doing. Africa has become the proving ground for Turkey's emergence as a consequential middle power – a state without the global resources of the United States or China,…
Ankara Summit Shows NATO Rediscovering Its Purpose
NATO was built in 1949 to contain a Soviet threat its founders believed diplomacy alone could not hold. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Alliance spent three decades answering a nagging question: what was it still for? The Ankara summit declaration gave an unusually direct answer.NATO names Russia and rediscovers…
