Turkey Advances in the South Caucasus

Ankara is benefiting from Russia’s waning influence and Iran’s many problems.

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Though his military forces are still in the process of absorbing Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met on Sept. 25 with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The timing of the meeting was noteworthy, but the deeper significance was the location: in the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan, wedged between Armenia and Iran, with a tiny […]

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Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. Dr. Bokhari is now the Senior Director, Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Dr. Bokhari is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. He has served as the Coordinator for Central Asia Studies at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Kamran Bokhari