The Geostrategic Challenges of Russia’s “Ummah Pivot”

... fact that it proposed some form of decentralization in Syria back in 2017 shows that there is a precedent to do the same in Yemen. The thinking goes that this is a pragmatic possibility, one without any ulterior motives since Russia would not have proposed ... ... managed since Turkey aspires to establish a transregional sphere of influence across all Turkic states, including those in Central Asia . Besides, Ankara wants to do the same in non-Turkic Muslim-majority ones in the Levant and North Africa through ...