For the past year or so, relations between Russia and Turkey have been through a roller-coaster ride. Mere weeks before the Su-24 incident in November 2015, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was the guest of honor at the opening of a sumptuous mosque in Moscow, said to be one of Europe’s largest—if not the largest. Not long thereafter, he turned into the favorite punching bag of the Kremlin’s propaganda regime, the perfidious friend who had stabbed Russia in the back and colluded with Syria’s jihadists. But as of this past summer, in yet another dramatic turnaround, Putin and Erdoğan managed …read more
Source: The American Interest
