The Financial Times published an alarming article on November 27 detailing how Turkey’s exports of military-linked goods to Moscow have soared. This should be a wake-up call for the United States and its allies about Turkey’s role in the West’s conflict with Russia.
During the Cold War, Turkey was regarded as a staunch ally, but it was the advent of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government in 2002 that led to a marked change in Turkish foreign policy and disengagement from the United States.
In 2009, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu stated that it was the goal of Turkish foreign policy to make the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East together with Turkey the center of world politics once again. Three years later, at an AKP conference, he declared it was the AKP’s mission to create a new world order (nizam-i âlem, the Ottoman concept of Islamic rule).
However, Davutoglu was toppled in an AKP plot and replaced by an ideological Islamic scholar Ibrahim…