Moscow’s Caucasian Conundrum: Turkish-Russian Relations and the Limits of “Strategic Competition”
... keeping with that history, Moscow is very suspicious of the activities of any NATO member state in its immediate neighborhood. Turkey is no exception in this regard. Ankara made its first foray into the Caucasus after 1991, with particular focus on developing ... ... continued to contradict and conflict, most notably with regard to the fate of Idlib and northeastern Syria and the situation in Libya. This complex maze of coinciding and contradicting interests was governed by unspoken ground rules between the two sides,...