owing to the fierce resistance of Ukraine and the serious operational and planning • Turkey is looking to minimize weaknesses and mistakes of the much the cost to its interests, but also aims to become a “third pole” stronger Russian army. [...] Turkey for the delivery of new Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 As the international order swings between multipolarity and Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UACVs/drones)2 – in a peculiar bipolarity, as the power equilibrium shi s to the addition to those sold to Ukraine the previous year. [...] East, and as the war in Ukraine seems to be bringing China and Russia closer, Turkey is increasingly striving to play the 8 For years, Turkey’s stance on Ukraine has been pro-Western role of a “third pole” between the West and the East. [...] is is precisely what has happened closing the Straits to the passage of belligerent vessels, and with Russia, and is encapsulated in a statement that Turkish voted against it in the United Nations General Assembly of Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu’s, made while the 2 March 2022.4 Russian invasion was unfolding: “Despite the differences of opinion, we are the country that has developed coopera. [...] THE AUTHORS THE PROJECT PRIO Zenonas Tziarras This project aims to explore the Eastern Mediterranean as a The Peace Research Institute Oslo is a researcher at PRIO Cyprus distinct geopolitical space in the context of global and regional (PRIO) is a non-profit peace Centre and the author of Turkish transitions.
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