Crisis in Ukraine: the Middle East connections
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How Ukraine Crisis Touches Turkey, Syria, Israel
Turkey: Erdogan seeks to capitalize on relationships
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to Ukraine on Feb. 3, enjoying the spotlight, and seeking to leverage his relationship with both his Ukrainian and Russian counterparts as a potential mediator to the current crisis.
Amberin Zaman, reporting from Vinnytsia, Ukraine, writes, “Turkey, not America, is commonly cited as the country that boosts Ukraine’s flagging spirits the most and whose actions show that it isn’t afraid of Russia.”
