[…] In the last quarter of 2015 there are still some major political problems ahead of Turkey. How did Turkey’s international ambitions fall apart? It’s a question with multiple answers. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s grandiose ideas of his role in the world, his desire to transform Turkey into an all-powerful presidential system, and the collapse of the Kurdish peace process, itself a consequence of the Syrian civil war, have all contributed to damaging Ankara’s once-promising foreign policy. […]
Federico De Renzi
Master’s degree in Turkish Language and Literature (Sapienza University of Rome)
Francesco Ventura
Master’s degree in International Relations and European Studies (University of Florence)
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CONTENTS:
- Introduction – A lot of problem with all neighbors (p. 4)
- Turkey’s Domestic Policy (p. 10)
- Failure in regional policy and its consequences (p. 10)
- Home Extreme Makeover (p. 10)
- A Peace to end all Peace(p. 16)
- “War at home, war in the world” . Turkey-Kurdish relations in the Mesopotamian cauldron (p. 24)
- The PYD/YPG and the peace process stand-off in Turkey (p. 27)
- Fog of war in Rojava (p. 29)
- Russian shadows (p. 33)
- The bastion of NATO… once more? (p. 38)
- References (p. 39)
- About the Authors (p. 43)
