EI Weekly Listen – Tim Marshall: New Turkey’s old politics
June 11, 2021
As a result of President Erdogan's embrace of two interlinked geopolitical concepts, 'Strategic Depth' and 'Blue Homeland', Turkey faces international isolation. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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