Posted by Scott Lucas | Jan 11, 2021 |
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Moscow, March 5, 2020
Welcome to Deep Dive Politics’ World Unfiltered. I will be interviewing experts on international affairs to get behind the headlines, empowering us with an informed understanding of the events affecting our countries and communities.
In our debut VideoCast, I chat with Dr. Emre Ersen of Marmara University about Turkish-Russian relations. We assess the shift from conflict to cooperation, with the two countries sometimes aligned but sometimes on opposite sides of conficts from Syria to Libya to Nagorno Karabakh.
We look at the political and economic dynamics of the relationship and ask about its basis: A “marriage of convenience” in geopolitics? Economic interests and leverage? Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin?