Whose side is Turkey on?

“The US and Europe need Turkey for a host of strategic, political, practical and geographical reasons. But Turkey under Erdogan is proving a less than constant friend. Not so much an ally, it is increasingly seen as a threat.”

On the day when Turkey holds hard-fought presidential and parliamentary elections, Simon Tisdall uses an article in the “Observer” newspaper to explain how the country is an increasingly unreliable ally of the West under the dangerous leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.


 




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