Can Kasapoglu

A po­ten­tial de­fence deal be­tween Turkey and Rus­sia could en­hance their mil­i­tary co­op­er­a­tion but would not mend ties.

Ankara should fo­cus on both its diplo­mat­ic ca­pa­bil­i­ties and its firm con­trol over the lo­cal friend­ly groups in Syr­ia.

The tra­jec­to­ry of the re­cent clash­es hints at what the next war be­tween Azer­bai­jan and Ar­me­nia would look like.

For Ankara, noth­ing is worse than a Kur­dish cor­ri­dor along Turkey’s fron­tier with Syr­ia.