Ankara anchors its regional policy in calculated neutrality, navigating the explosive crisis to build vital strategic hedges and preserve post-war clout.
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An analysis of the updated Türkiye Defense Strategy, focusing on the qualitative leap in domestic manufacturing and the reassessment of regional threats.
Excluding Türkiye from European defense guarantees failure. NATO’s 500,000-troop force plan needs Turkish and Ukrainian mass. EU-only cannot work.
Ethiopia’s sea access pursuit and internal crises collide with Israeli moves, as regional powers compete for influence.
The strategy seeks to render the opposition dysfunctional while maintaining a façade of pluralism. This judicial pressure, targeting popular figures like Mayor İmamoğlu, risks consolidating one-man rule and further eroding Turkey’s democratic traditions.
By supporting groups like the armed Jamaa al-Islamiyya to influence Lebanon’s parliament, Turkey’s strategy risks mirroring Iran’s use of Hezbollah as a proxy to project power and block undesired foreign policy shifts.
By Kheder Khaddour and Issam Kayssi As Washington reduces its presence in the country, the success of its withdrawal and…
“The United States is helping Israel to consolidate a zone of its own in the Levant. But reconstituting a world in which establishing and defending spheres of interest is the operating rule will mean a much more volatile global environment.”
“The main hinderances to the project’s success are the difficulty of securing sustainable funding for such a megaproject and rampant inefficiency and corruption in Iraqi state institutions. The potential for insecurity and instability may discourage investors in the Development Road.”
“Iraq will have to find a place for itself in the midst of regional geoeconomic and geopolitical rivalries, as competing trade connectivity projects are being put forward. These include China’s BRI, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, and Iran’s trade ambitions.”