Turkey’s Expanding Influence Around the Mediterranean and Red Sea

Ankara’s evolving partnerships and forward deployments are reshaping regional alignments and changing Israeli threat perceptions.

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Partly propelled by its own strategic ambitions and partly facilitated by the shifting global posture of the United States, Turkey is methodically expanding its influence across the Mediterranean and Red Sea basins. Ankara’s focus on its southwestern flank marks the next stage of a broader Middle Eastern strategy, where it has already cultivated pragmatic alignment […]

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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