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August 6, 2024

Why Is the Turkish President Threatening Israel?

And what the U.S. can do about it.

In Thursday’s newsletter, I mentioned the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s apparent threat to send troops to attack Israel. Erdogan specifically referred to Turkey’s interventions in Azerbaijan and Libya, where it sent not members of its armed forces but of a private security contractor with close ties to the government. Jonathan Spyer tries to make sense of these remarks:

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