Deep rumblings on the faultline.
Usually I don’t write much about politics, especially international politics, because there are so many other sources, with so much more information and insight than I, that there is nothing worth adding, but I can’t seem to find any analyses of the current economic meltdown occurring in Turkey, other than as a financial and economic story. Which would seem to be overlooking some very significant geostrategic implications.
Here is an informative view/opinion of the situation;
There is a clearly developing polarization, literally between East and West, that while it certainly has modern causes, does correlate with a divide that goes to the dawn of civilization.
On which Turkey historically has been the frontline of the East. Yet since the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, at the end of World War 1 and the emergence of the modern world, with the end of World War 2, it has been determined to join the West.
Yet after being kept at arms length, for the rest of the 20th century, for the first couple of decades of the 21st, under Recep Erdogan, it has first turned inward, then sought to assert more of what it sees as its historical role…
