SETH J. FRANTZMAN
Ankara has pivoted in the last several years, fueled by the former Trump administration
which worked closely with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to work
with Russia and Iran.
Turkey hosted Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in Ankara on Friday in a sign of growing relations that seek to work closely with Tehran against US interests in the Middle East. The meeting illustrated that Turkey’s recent push for Azerbaijan to fight Armenians in the Caucasus now will end with Ankara, Moscow and Tehran cooperating in the Caucasus region to carve it up into spheres of influence, like Syria and Libya.
Ankara has pivoted in the last several years, fueled by the former Trump administration which worked closely with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to work with Russia and Iran. This appears counterintuitive because Washington wanted to work with Turkey and even gave Turkey a greater role in Syria. However Ankara’s goal was to use the blank check it had from the Trump administration to move away from NATO into the orbit of Moscow and Tehran to partition areas of the Middle East and remove the US and EU.
Turkish and Iranian media, which are all pro-government, heralded the new era of Turkey-Iran ties.
Ianian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in Ankara on Friday that both Iran and Turkey have a common stance that stability will be restored to the region only through “synergy”.
Turkey and Russia are also opening a coordination center in Karabakh, the Armenian area that Turkey prodded Azerbaijan to retake in September. This illustrates. That Russia and Turkey will now work closely in Idlib in Syria, in Libya and in Azerbaijan.
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