![Turkey and Iran have had fraught relations since 2003, writes Ozhan [File: Reuters/Umit Bektas]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/890042d0a062434bb980ba61acc37419_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
There are both dangers and opportunities for Turkey in the latest Iran-US escalation.
![Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on a three-day visit to Germany in September [Anadolu]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/c214dfec3b224f38a644463ce4c650fa_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Relations between Turkey and the EU have markedly improved in recent months and Trump has played a major role in that.
![Military ships are seen during a naval exercise by US and Qatari troops in the Gulf on June 16 [Reuters /Naseem Zeitoon]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b2221c664090444694da29b87aa1fc6a_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The architects of the blockade on Qatar expect to be able to create a new geopolitical order in the Gulf.
After last year’s aid flotilla massacre, Israel wrongly believed it could continue operating under a ‘legal umbrella’.