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Why Trump sees Turkey as an essential problem solver, and why Israel views the same moves as a growing danger.
Middle East politics are rearranging themselves in real time, and Turkey is touching every pressure point. Ankara is brokering deals in Gaza, pushing into Syria, resetting ties with Egypt, and balancing between Washington and Moscow. All of this is happening while Israeli officials warn that Turkey is becoming a strategic threat.
In this episode of The Diplomat, Soner Çağaptay, Director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, joins Joe Kawly to decode how Ankara is playing multiple games at once: rebuilding ties with Egypt, negotiating influence in Gaza, managing refugees from Syria, and positioning itself as Washington’s indispensable, and unpredictable, partner.
This conversation traces the real levers of influence behind the headlines: regional triangles, security doctrines, refugee politics, and a rivalry over who gets to set the terms of the next Middle East order. If you want to understand power in this moment, you cannot understand it without understanding Turkey.
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