Please join us for the next event in the Charles Gati Seminar Series this semester, where Gönül Tol, founding director of the Middle East Institute’s Turkey program and a senior fellow with the Black Sea Program, will discuss the nexus of Russia-Turkey-Syria relations.
Gönül Tol is the founding director of the Middle East Institute’s Turkey program and a senior fellow with the Black Sea Program. She is the author of Erdogan's War: A Strongman's Struggle at Home and in Syria. She has taught courses on Turkey, Islamist movements in Western Europe, world politics, and the Middle East at George Washington University and the National Defense University. She has written extensively on Turkey-U.S. relations, Turkish domestic politics, and foreign policy and the Kurdish issue.
Event description
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to repair relations with Syria after Turkey's support for the Syrian rebels damaged bilateral ties. Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is refusing to normalize ties until Turkey withdraws its military forces from the country. Russia might hold the key to breaking the impasse, but it is uncertain if the Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to do so. To his dismay, Turkey recently approved Sweden's NATO accession and is working closely with Ukraine in the defense sector. What do these evolving dynamics mean for the three countries and the conflicts they are involved in?
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