Turkiye’s relations with the West have always been on tightropes as the country under the leadership of President Recep Erdogan was trying to find its identity in Eurasia. It needed security and economic assurances from the West but limelight in the East as the leading Muslim nation. However, post 7 October 2023 Ankara seems to have been seeking a path to secure its position in eastern alliances, into the cradles of geo-political giants Russia and China. Turkiye is among the few Muslim countries that have had good working relations with Israel for a long time. It is a country which for a long time has been caught up between populism, western liberalism, Muslim world protagonists and geopolitical complexities due to […]
