... Su-24 above Syria in November, Ankara has demonstrated an interest in enhancing maritime cooperation with its Black Sea neighbors, except Russia. In early April, Turkish vessels visited Batumi (Georgia), Varna (Bulgaria), Constanta (Romania) and Odessa (Ukraine), and carried out sea exercises with the host ships, in the framework of the annual Deniz Yildizi (Sea Star) drills[10].
The fact that Russia-Turkey relations have been critically downgraded in the context of the Syrian crisis has opened the path for Bucharest to float out this project. All indicates that attracting Turkey is actually the main purpose of Romania’s call for the creation ...
... argued that if Europeans did not begin pursuing a new, Greater European cooperative project, then divisions between the EU and Russia over Ukraine and between NATO and Russia on other issues could create a new period of confrontation in Europe.
That fear has now, sadly,... ... Sanberk
Director of the International Strategic Research Organisation, former Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Turkey) (Task Force Co-Chair);
Paul Quilès
Former Defence Minister and former President of the Defence and Armed Forces ...
... crisis). As one of my Turkish interlocutors said, many of them still have bad memories of World War II deportations and mistrust Russians. There are some Tatar politicians who still dream of the re-emergence of centuries-old Tatar statehood/autonomy in the Crimea.
From Moscow’s angle, it is also essential to achieve an understanding with Turkey about the Ukraine-Crimea crisis. It would like Ankara to either be supportive of the plans of the Crimean present-day government to hold ...
... development as the association agreement will allow EU to increase its presence in Ukraine’s nuclear waste disposal industry. The Chernobyl Zone may once again grip... ... of dumping its nuclear waste in this area. Again, this will be a political blow to Russia, as one of the major nuclear players in Europe, Rosatom, will be less likely... ... Non-EU members, with the latter being cherry picked up by other major regional powers. Turkey, which then also felt mistreated about its party invite, even spoke about restoring...
