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2023-03-01 19:09:49+00:00
🇹🇷🇷🇺 Turkey’s multi-dimensional foreign policy exercises of late have given rise to endless speculations and contradictions across the world and in particular in the West.
It is epitomized by the Turkish President’s meetings with his Russian, Ukrainian and Iranian counterparts as well as his meetings with his Western partners, including Biden.
Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict Ankara has been pursuing a noticeably restrained and well-balanced policy without taking part in the western sanctions but at the same time keeping up its relations with its western partners closely.
Having rid itself of almost all its Middle-Eastern entanglements, which have cost Ankara an arm and a leg over the last decade or so, Turkey now stands to benefit from the opportunities accruing from a multipolar world order, something that it has become an unstoppable reality, however much the US and the Collective West are still trying to prevent it, but to no avail.
Turkey’s rapprochement with Russia does not seem to be circumstantial. It is true that, as its relations with the West and particularly the US are going through tough times Ankara turns to Russia for more cooperation but it is also true that Ankara would remain on this mutually beneficial track more firmly at a time of multipolarity just as it always sought good relations with the Soviet Union in the inter-war period, particularly in the 1920s and 30s, writes Hasan Ünal, Professor at Maltepe University, Istanbul.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/turkish-russian-rapprochement-imultipolar-world/
📌 This article was prepared for the 12th Middle East conference of the Valdai Discussion Club.
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2023-03-02 17:45:57+00:00
💧🌍 Water Scarcity in the Middle East
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The Middle East and North Africa occupy about 15% of the Earth’s land area,  about 5% of the world’s inhabitants live there. The region has less than 1% of the world’s renewable water resources.
By 2050, the population of the region will increase by 57% and reach 770 million people. Water supplies will be reduced to critical 500 m3 per person.
đź“Ś The video infographic is prepared for the Valdai Club 12th Middle East Conference.
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