Turkey's Strategy

Stratfor ^ | April 17, 2012 | George Friedman

[arthurus]

Turkey is re-emerging as a significant regional power. In some sense, it is in the process of returning to its position prior to World War I when it was the seat of the Ottoman Empire. But while the Ottoman parallel has superficial value in understanding the situation, it fails to take into account changes in how the global system and the region work. Therefore, to understand Turkish strategy, we need to understand the circumstances it finds itself in today.

The end of World War I brought with it the end of the Ottoman Empire...

[arthurus]

From one whose childhood in Istanbul left me sympathetic to Turkey by default. It has taken a while to take off my nostalgia glasses.

[theBuckwheat]

Slouching towards a (nuclear armed) caliphate. Life in the (infidel) west will take on a whole new set of challenges soon.

[Gay State Conservative]

Everything I've read suggests that Turkey,long a comparatively reasonable/civilized moslem country,has recently started trending toward become just another radical moslem cesspool.Sorry,OP...I don't mean to put you,or your family,down in any way.