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The Strongmen of Turkey and Russia & the Trump Administration. @BlaiseMisztal, Bipartisan Policy Center.

In this febrile atmosphere, some Turkish politicians have raised the prospect of withdrawing from the Nato alliance and forging a much closer partnership with Russia. “In the wake of the coup, Turkey’s foreign policy is now a reflection less of the country’s interests and more of Erdogan’s own personality,” says Blaise Misztal at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a US think-tank. “That means that it could go in a lot of different directions.”

https://www.ft.com/content/a261b08a-533f-11e6-9664-e0bdc13c3bef

• http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/Transition2017-Turkey.pdf • http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/russias-hacking-discussion-is-too-important-for-partisanship