Pressure is mounting on President Erdogan

As time goes on, more and more pressure is being put on Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at home and abroad. The consequences remain unpredictable.

The difficult situation in the Turkish economy, as well as the isolation of the international chessboard, is being overcome with coordinated moves towards the United Nations, the EU and at home by Tayyip Erdogan, who sees his party’s percentages as dangerously reduced compared to the past. in polls. The pound under pressure from Erdogan’s decision on a low interest rate is depleting purchasing power.

The narrative of the spread of the country’s influence from the Turkic republics of the former Soviet Union to the Middle East and from there to Africa is increasingly being challenged, with the diplomatic developments of recent months.

The situation in Syria benefits neither relations with the United States nor with Russia. Much worse, it seems, are the effects of selling drones in Ukraine and much more buying engines for them. President Putin’s annoyance was also evident in his communication with Erdogan the day before yesterday.

Greek-Turkish in a phase of tug-of-war rhetoric

However, the situation in the Cypriot EEZ brings Ankara and Washington into a state of conflict now that ExxonMobil is preparing for exploration and drilling in licensed plots.

So at the moment the Greek-Turks are more in a phase of tug-of-war rhetoric that both aims to shift the blame to the other side, without of course any discount on positions and claims.

In this context, Ankara’s letter to the UN, which shows that the way even for a meaningful dialogue, against the background of the possibility of settling Greek-Turkish disputes in The Hague, as well as to state your intention many times, will be difficult and time consuming, if not impasse.

Andreas Robopoulos, Istanbul

Source: Deutsche Welle