The roots of Turkey’s balancing act with Russia on Ukraine
With an election looming, Erdogan knows that he needs to keep Ankara’s economic relationship with Moscow intact.
Sibel Oktay is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Springfield, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. She is the author of Governing Abroad: Coalition Politics and Foreign Policy in Europe (2022, University of Michigan Press).
With an election looming, Erdogan knows that he needs to keep Ankara’s economic relationship with Moscow intact.