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Cold Turkey: why is Erdogan resisting Nato’s expansion?

Why is Erdogan resisting Nato’s expansion?

21 May 2022

9:00 AM

21 May 2022

9:00 AM

Driving a hard bargain is the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s chief survival skill – one that has kept him in power for nearly as long as his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. And the basic principles of bargaining are twofold: never give something away for nothing, and make your threats to walk away convincing.

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