Trump’s theatrics may thrill Ankara’s loyalists, but they complicate Erdoğan’s already fragile balancing act in Syria. What looked like a win could just as easily fuel regional suspicions.
Thanks for this concise rendering of the situation ("2000 years..." - these days I just cannot bear having to follow the nonsense Trump utters anymore ... feels like such a waste of all if our precious time ... but this one made me grin widely: you managed to make an impressionistic sketch of the situation with all the right journalistic brushstrokes - particularly scholarly people don't always have this ability. I relish wherever I may find this rare gift 😃
Btw: I could not resist ordering both of your books for my birthday because I think if I have both it will be like a little remote seminar of your work and thus I will buy your Wendy Pearlman recommendation a bit later this year or in the next ("We crossed the bridge and it trembled" and "The home I worked to make" both sound incredibly interesting - thanks for the heads up!)
Great analysis! It’s such an interesting dynamic between those three, and as we have learnt, Trump does like people who have a lot of cards, which Erdogan surely does (probably more than Netanyahu).
Thanks for this concise rendering of the situation ("2000 years..." - these days I just cannot bear having to follow the nonsense Trump utters anymore ... feels like such a waste of all if our precious time ... but this one made me grin widely: you managed to make an impressionistic sketch of the situation with all the right journalistic brushstrokes - particularly scholarly people don't always have this ability. I relish wherever I may find this rare gift 😃
Btw: I could not resist ordering both of your books for my birthday because I think if I have both it will be like a little remote seminar of your work and thus I will buy your Wendy Pearlman recommendation a bit later this year or in the next ("We crossed the bridge and it trembled" and "The home I worked to make" both sound incredibly interesting - thanks for the heads up!)
Great analysis! It’s such an interesting dynamic between those three, and as we have learnt, Trump does like people who have a lot of cards, which Erdogan surely does (probably more than Netanyahu).
Great read Ezgi. Wrote something similar on the topic. Check it out! 👇🏻
https://open.substack.com/pub/opedd/p/syriasly-turkey-israel-and-the-shadow?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=jw7u4&utm_medium=ios