Russia in Global Affairs

It's premature to assert that Turkey is making a profound shift toward the West at the expense of its balanced strategy. Present signals from the Kremlin suggest that Turkey's recent actions are noted but will not lead to a dramatic fracture in bilateral ties. However, gauging the repercussions of Turkey's ambition to mediate between Ukraine and Russia remains complex.

Turkey is a unique example of a country that successfully combines strategic hedging, various forms of balancing, and a proactive foreign policy aimed at increasing its strategic autonomy on all possible tracks. Turkey’s assertive regional and macro-regional policies combined with reactivated beneficial foreign policy projects have yielded a strong synergistic effect owing to skillful foreign policy maneuvering and favorable circumstances.

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs Fyodor Lukyanov took part in an online discussion on Russian-Turkish relations. The discussion, titled «Cooperative Competition or Competitive Cooperation? Russian-Turkish Relations Today» was organized by The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece, and took place on May, 5.