Turkey and the European Union: Conflicting Policies and Opportunities for Cohesion and Cooperation In Iraq and Syria
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Turkey and the European Union: Conflicting Policies and Opportunities for Cohesion and Cooperation In Iraq and Syria, 2018 – By Susan Cersosimo
17 Febr 2020 – Radical security events, issues and trends in Iraq since 2003 and Syria since 2011, have adversely impacted Turkey-European Union (EU) relations. Current literature unpacking how and why is largely missing. As such, this policy paper deconstructs and evaluates Ankara’s and Brussels’ current security interests, priorities and perceptions toward security threats originating in these two countries. We, then, classify opportunities as culminating in three possible discrete or combined security policy scenarios:…