Time to “Slow-down-but-hurry-up” in Understanding Turkish Regional Agenda
Moscow is confused, the US is confused – everybody seems to be when it comes to Turkey, who is with whom and what its next move will be. Anything you write about Turkey is old news by the time you get done with it, as they keep moving the goalposts in this game. As Victorian poet Matthew Arnold said, “Journalism is literature in a hurry” – but no matter which direction we go in, certain trends are clear and need to be addressed.