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For more than a year (since autumn 2022) Russia, highly appreciating Turkey’s reliability as a trading partner, has proposed to form a gas hub on Turkish territory for subsequent sales of blue fuel to the world markets. The essence of this project is that after the Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 pipelines are put out of operation due to sabotage actions of Western special services, Russian gas flows from the north-west direction could go to the south. At the same time, Turkey plans to create an electronic platform for price coordination based on the world market conditions…

Security issues imply ensuring a sufficient level of protection of vital objects and interests of the state. Among them, a special place is occupied by military security, i.e. constant strengthening of defence capability and equipping the army with the necessary arsenal of armaments and combat equipment to repel external threats and to solve military tasks specified by the military doctrine and the state leadership. Turkey, being a member of the NATO bloc, solves the tasks related to the renewal of the armament and combat equipment fleet in two ways…

As a country at the crossroads of three continents (Asia, Africa and Europe), Turkey remains a key regional player and has a fairly active diplomatic policy. Of course, not all of Ankara’s foreign policy doctrines declared over the past 10-15 years have delighted its neighbours. In particular, when it comes to neo-Ottomanism and Turkey’s intention to restore its former influence in the post-Ottoman space, almost most (if not all) of its geographical neighbours that were formerly part of the Ottoman state are concerned about Ankara’s desire to do so. At the same time…