Moscow’s Caucasian Conundrum: Turkish-Russian Relations and the Limits of “Strategic Competition”
... the region remains firm, Kremlin elites are becoming increasingly wary of Ankara’s efforts to project its influence along Russian borders Russo–Turkish relations have been at the forefront of recent media discussions. Cooperative competition, “frenemies,... ... 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,...