Has the UN’s Resounding Failure on Cyprus Flung Turkey Into Russia’s Saurian Embrace?
With its membership in BRICS looking more likely than ever, Turkey’s pivot to the East poses fresh challenges to the West.
Turkey is a country of nearly 85 million people with the second largest military force in NATO after America’s own. Little wonder then that deepening ties with a strategic country that straddles two continents should be so enticing for a wily and ruthless leader like Vladimir Putin.
On Tuesday a Turkish official confirmed that Turkey seeks to join BRICS, the geopolitical bloc that includes Russia, as well as Brazil, India, Communist China, Iran, and other countries considered by some to be developing economies.
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