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Three pillars
The new national security strategy is based on three pillars.
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Turkish Foreign Policy and the Global South
Turkey foreign policy has been linked to regional and global dynamics in recent decades, such as the various conflicts bordering its territory (Syria, Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh, and now Ukraine) or the Russo-Western tensions in the broader Black Sea region that have turned Turkish foreign policy into a more assertive one, anchored in regional power and national security.
possess nearly 90 percent of all nuclear weapons in the world, and that the sizes of their nuclear arsenals remained relatively stable in 2022, despite the decline in transparency about nuclear forces in both countries following the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022.
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Released in early January
According to Bellingcat, an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) website, some of the documents may have been released as early as January 2023 or even before.
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Moreover, Washington's pledge to build an alliance of democracies against autocracies in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine has also irritated some Gulf Arab countries.
With crises like global warming, migration challenges, threats to democracy, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the repercussions of the war in Ukraine converging, Western societies find themselves caught in a continuous state of fear and distraction.
Erdoğan aptly mediated many crises in the Balkans, brought together two warring countries, Russia and Ukraine, and saved the world from a food catastrophe by opening a grain corridor through a grain deal, which has just been extended yet again.
Turkey, which has become a game-changer in conflict and crisis areas in its immediate geography thanks to its defense industry, is taking important steps both to protect regional interests and increase its international reputation as a broker in Ukraine, Syria, Libya, and Azerbaijan.
In this respect, London will probably send financial and military aid to Taiwan, similar to the support it provided to Ukraine following the Russian invasion.
The EU’s short-term foreign policy expectations from Turkey are the following: Sweden's admission to NATO, and Turkey's abandoning a balanced position in the UkraineWar and taking a clear stance against Russia.
withdrawal from Afghanistan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it became a trend in the Middle East to diversify classical alliances and normalize problematic relations.
At the same time, the war in Ukraine has been impacting states’ energy choices with some states sticking to their long-term plans while others redesigning theirs.
The war in Ukraine and East Asian arms exports
Ukraine has become the third-largest recipient of global arms in 2022, accounting for 2% of global arms purchases between 2018 and 2022.
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Anti-racism laws
To counter this unfortunate litany of racist acts, Tunisia passed a law in 2018 penalizing racism and established January 23 as the “National Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
Israel’s Western allies who contribute to the suppression of the Palestinian people through their silence should speak up as they readily do for Ukraine.