How Turkey Dumped ‘No Problems with Neighbours’ Policy

Joseph Dana
4 min readJan 22, 2020

What happened to Turkey’s soft foreign policy? Not so long ago, Ankara’s famed “no problems with neighbours” policy was the darling of international geopolitics. In the 2000s, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spent a decade building Istanbul into a global nexus point of travel, trade and influence. The state-owned Turkish Airlines began flying to places like Mogadishu to project the country as a…

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