ANKARA - International Relations Specialist Sezin Öney, who evaluated the possible effects of the NATO Leaders' Summit and EU Leaders' Summit meetings to be held in Brussels, said that Turkey is not in a position to give up on Russia or the USA.
The NATO Leaders' Summit, where new strategies will be approved and some fundamental changes will be made in its internal structure, will take place on 14 June in Brussels. Turkey will be among the countries most effected by the decisions taken in the summit because of its relationship with these countries, which will probably define Russia as 'secret military enemy' while China will be defined as 'open economic enemy'. It is also among the comments that AKP President Tayyip Erdoğan, who went to the summit with problems such as Turkey, which is directly on the sanction radar of the USA, especially because it bought the S-400 air defense system from Russia, has practically moved away from its NATO alliance for a long time, has a difficult task.
International Relations Specialist Sezin Öney is of the opinion that the USA and the European Union asked Turkey not to implement policies of its own accord, but this does not seem likely. Saying that this directional political line will be maintained because it is a state policy rather than the Erdogan administration, Öney stated that even if the government changes, Turkey will maintain relations with Russia on the one hand and the EU and the USA on the other.
Speaking about how long Turkey will maintain relationships with these two countries which have a conflicted relationship with each other, Sezin Öney said: "It will go on like this. Turkey can no longer give up on both sides. Turkey will continue to be associated with both countries accordingly with its own interests. Also, Turkey's relationship with NATO is very paradoxical. Because NATO considers Russia as its 'first enemy'. In other words, the enemy that NATO has now determined for itself is Russia. Now, in such a structure, you are both working against Russia and selling UAVs to Poland. Now we have seen these vehicles in Ukraine as well. Again, there was a situation against Russia in Karabakh. Now Turkey is going to change the military equation there with these UAVs. This issue is much more important for Russia. Now that's how relationships work, but how far does it all go? What happens? Will Russia hurt Turkey again? Yes, all this can happen. The issue stems from that."