Unforced Errors: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkey’s Domestic and Foreign Policy Crises

March 25, 2022 Early last summer, Pavel Baev, writing for the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), wrote that, “the tumultuous year 2020 tested and significantly degraded the always ambiguous Russian-Turkish partnership, which had become transactional at best and certainly not ‘strategic’”, and that, “the maturing of autocratic regimes in Russia and Turkey does not