Turkey shifts the focus of its foreign policy : from Syria to the eastern Mediterranean and Libya

Zusammenfassung: On 27 November 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared that Turkey had concluded a treaty on military assistance and cooperation with the government of Fayez al-Sarraj in Libya. The agreement permits the deployment of Turkish troops into the civil-war-torn country. The announcement was met with almost unanimous criticism in Western Europe. The indignation grew even greater when it became known that Turkey was controlling and financing the smuggling of Islamic Syrian fighters into Libya. Reports of a dominant influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on the Libyan gov­ern­ment seemed to complete the picture of a strongly Islamist-motivated Turkish policy.However, Turkey’s engagement in Libya is not driven by ideology, but rather by strategic considerations and economic interests. Ankara is thus reacting to its isolation in the eastern Mediterranean, where the dispute over the distribution of gas resources is intensifying. At the same time, Turkey is drawing lessons from the war in Syria. Ankara has lost this war, but through its engagement in Syria, it has been able to establish a conflictual - but viable - working relationship with Russia. The bottom line is that Turkey’s commitment to Libya is a shift in the focus of its foreign policy from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, a shift that will present entirely new challenges to Europe, the European Union (EU), and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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1 Online-Ressource (4 Seiten)
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
"English version of SWP-aktuell 6/2020"

Erschienen in
SWP comment ; 2020, no. 6 (February 2020)
SWP comment ; 2020, no. 6 (February 2020)

Klassifikation
Politik
Schlagwort
Internationale Politik
Außenpolitik
Regionalpolitik
Strategie
Natürliche Ressourcen
Erdgas
Türkei
Libyen
Levante

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Berlin
(wer)
SWP
(wann)
[February 2020]
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Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen

DOI
10.18449/2020C06
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023112321430933493457
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