Henry P. Williams III

Tempting as it might be to envision a NATO without Turkey, President Erdogan knows that the West needs Turkey as much as Turkey needs NATO. There is a national election coming up in June of 2023. Symbolically for his people, it will be the centennial of the founding of the secular Republic of Turkey under…

Turkey’s response to the war in Ukraine is a defining moment for world perception. The country now hosts ceasefire/peace talks between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations, a service increasingly appreciated by America, NATO, and the East European states in particular. This role as a player/broker follows President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s adventurist foreign policy in recent…

Symmetrical, and asymmetrical, conflicts and proxy wars in the eastern Mediterranean present clear and present dangers to the countries in that region. By extension, those cold and hot wars — compounded by refugee migrations — also present enormous challenges to the U.S., the European Union, NATO and the West. Read more at The Daily Progress