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It’s time for Turkey to choose

5 May, 2022
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ISTANBUL, TURKEY - MARCH 29, 2022: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) attends a round of Russian-Ukrainian talks at the Dolmabahce Palace. Both delegations are to meet face to face for the first time since March 7. With the first round held in the Belarusian city of Gomel on February 28, two more followed in person along with more recent sessions online. On February 24, RussiaТs President Putin announced the start of a special military operation in Ukraine in response to appeals from the leaders of the Donetsk and Lugansk PeopleТs Republic. Sergei Karpukhin/TASS

“урци€. —тамбул. ѕрезидент “урции “айип Ёрдоган (в центре) во врем€ российско-украинских переговоров во дворце ƒолмабахче. ƒелегации –оссии и ”краины проведут новый раунд переговоров в очном формате впервые с 7 марта. ѕервый раунд переговоров состо€лс€ 28 феврал€ в √омельской области Ѕелоруссии. ѕозже прошли еще два очных раунда, а также встречи в онлайн-формате. ѕрезидент –оссии ¬ладимир ѕутин 24 феврал€ объ€вил о проведении военной операции на ”краине в ответ на обращение руководителей республик ƒонбасса о помощи. —ергей  арпухин/“ј——

ISTANBUL, TURKEY - MARCH 29, 2022: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) attends a round of Russian-Ukrainian talks at the Dolmabahce Palace. Both delegations are to meet face to face for the first time since March 7. With the first round held in the Belarusian city of Gomel on February 28, two more followed in person along with more recent sessions online. On February 24, RussiaТs President Putin announced the start of a special military operation in Ukraine in response to appeals from the leaders of the Donetsk and Lugansk PeopleТs Republic. Sergei Karpukhin/TASS “урци€. —тамбул. ѕрезидент “урции “айип Ёрдоган (в центре) во врем€ российско-украинских переговоров во дворце ƒолмабахче. ƒелегации –оссии и ”краины проведут новый раунд переговоров в очном формате впервые с 7 марта. ѕервый раунд переговоров состо€лс€ 28 феврал€ в √омельской области Ѕелоруссии. ѕозже прошли еще два очных раунда, а также встречи в онлайн-формате. ѕрезидент –оссии ¬ладимир ѕутин 24 феврал€ объ€вил о проведении военной операции на ”краине в ответ на обращение руководителей республик ƒонбасса о помощи. —ергей  арпухин/“ј——

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Vassilis Nedos

Picking a side is rarely an easy task. It means disappointing one side and committing to a particular course. It means putting aside tactics such as maintaining a policy of equal distances or prevarication. And if it is tough when we’re talking about private, professional and social interactions, it is thoroughly unpleasant when it comes to international relations.

The reason is that states – and especially those which are regarded as a small or medium-sized power – inevitably comes under pressure from the bigger players to adopt one position or another every time a situation starts to heat up.

Sometimes that happens in a contained setting, as was the case in Greece during the early years of austerity. At other times, though, it happens during serious external upheaval, as is the case in Europe right now, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s interview with state broadcaster ERT and Kathimerini contained several tactfully worded barbs against Turkey. In one comment, the Ukrainian president accused Ankara of double standards, something the Turkish propaganda machine is sure to interpret as an attempt by Zelenskyy to pander to Greek public opinion.

Nevertheless, his comment draws attention to the fact that Turkey is coming under increasing pressure to pick a side. Given that it is headed to a general election in about a year from now, that choice becomes tougher and even more so due to the fact that the Turkish leadership regards the country’s position as a central rather than a regional player.

In practical terms, this means that a clear-cut choice between Russia or Ukraine would be at odds with Ankara’s perception of Turkey’s position in the world. Moreover, the deep state in Turkey lives in terror of a choice that would trigger “Sevres” phobia.

The United States and European leaders appear to have accepted a certain degree of freedom of movement for Ankara, but whether the West and Turkey agree on how much wiggle room this entails exactly is very debatable.

What this means is that the longer Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fails to strike a balance between the so-called “Eurasian” agenda’s “decline of the West” and the core of the West, which is NATO and the Euro-Atlantic relationship, the jumpier everyone becomes. And this means that Athens needs to tread very carefully over the next few months, saying as little as possible and acting responsibly.

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