Setting aside the baseless claims that Canal Istanbul would nullify the Montreux Convention, opening a canal without amending the Montreux Convention and the Turkish Straits Maritime Traffic Regulations appears meaningless.
Unless Turkey pursues a planned and stable production economy policy, it will not see any benefit from being on the trade routes connecting countries like China or India to the West.
The reason history judges Mustafa Kemal as successful and Enver as unsuccessful is precisely related to this perspective. History is full of cautionary lessons; if we know how to learn from them, we can weather the age of chaos and crisis unscathed.
Traditionally pro-Arab Greece only agreed to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel in May 1990.
The AKP government does not abandon its goal of converting all its foreign policy moves into domestic political gains. Turkey appears likely to maintain an unpredictable and non-negotiable diplomatic identity for some time to come.
