Dr. Henry P. (Phil) Williams III, formerly a Wall Street and international investment banker, currently teaches at IWP, operates a small consulting business, and lectures on a variety of topics, including American History, Turkey, and the Middle East. Full bio
Turkey plays cynical game with NATO
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…
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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…
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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
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