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The Unobtainable Coherence of Turkish Foreign Policy
▻https://orientxxi.info/magazine/what-is-ankara-s-new-foreign-policy-if-any,2365

In recent years, Turkish foreign policy has been marked by reversals and reversals of alliances. Some present it as “neo-ottoman”, a concept without consistency that does not help to understand the strategies implemented. Since the constitutional referendum of 2010 and especially since 2013 and the beginning of the fratricidal war between the regime’s strong man, Recep Yayyip Erdoğan, and the Gülen movement, the chief feature of Turkish domestic #Politics has been inconsistency with a political (...)

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/ #Turkey, #Middle_East, #European_Union, #Diplomacy, #Geopolitics, Politics

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Arabie Saoudite : le royaume dont les dirigeants britanniques n’osent pas prononcer le nom. Article de Robert Fisk

Saudi Arabia : the Kingdom Whose Name We Dare Not Speak At All
▻https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/21/saudi-arabia-the-kingdom-whose-name-we-dare-not-speak-at-all

The Kingdom Whose Name We Dare Not Speak At All is now as sacred as Israel used to be; that is, largely inoculated from all criticism. Once, we all feared to condemn Israel for its war crimes in Gaza for fear that we would be accused – falsely, as usual – of anti-Semitism. Now we must fear to condemn or even mention the KSA lest we be accused of endangering our national interest. It’s a real dog’s breakfast, this closing of national debate. Why soon, we will be afraid to ask why Israel strategically bombs the Syrians, Hezbollah and the Iranians – but never Isis – in the Syrian civil war.

#Arabie_Saoudite #KSA #Saudi_Arabia #Royaume_Uni #UK #commerce_des_armes #arms sales #Yemen #guerre #middle_east #moyen_orient #Robert_Fisk

▻https://seenthis.net/messages/616866 via David Sharp

U.S. Policies in the #Middle_East under the Trump Presidency
▻http://orientxxi.info/magazine/u-s-policies-in-the-middle-east-under-the-trump-presidency,1808

Donald Trump has not yet formulated a clear foreign policy doctrine. Bur state appointments as well as the first decisions taken about #Syria or #Yemen, or the decision to use the most powerful US non-atomic bomb in Afghanistan, reveal some broad orientations of the future US policy in the Middle East. President Trump undertook the first substantive foreign policy initiative of his presidency on April 5 when he authorized U.S. military action in the aftermath of the chemical weapons attack (...)

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/ Syria, Yemen, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Middle East, #International_relations, #Geopolitics, #Bilateral_relations, #Saudi_Arabia, United (...)

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