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Remember your Facebook password? Neither do we, but it’s worth logging in just to see this group, where Turkish citizens pretend KK won and everything is great. It’s half support group, half comic relief – pretty much like this newsletter. Speaking of, don’t miss Paul Benjamin Osterlund’s look back at the Gezi protests and their meaning for Turkey’s opposition 10 years later. Following a swear-in ceremony for Parliament Friday, and Pres.
But the impact these threats had on Stockholm and Helsinki's perception of their geostrategic situation, and on several alliance members, should not be underestimated. By insisting that Sweden and Finland must never join the alliance and subsequently invading Ukraine, Russia's actions shattered a policy of self-reliance in defence and security affairs that, in the case of Sweden, had lasted since the Napoleonic Wars.
Turkey has seen an upheaval in its foreign and domestic politics, exacerbated by the near-disastrous coup attempt on 15 July. In view of the current "frost" in the AKP government's relations with both the US and the EU, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision to choose Russia for his first official visit abroad since the botched coup appears rich in symbolism. And Western leaders will be looking on nervously.
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