He offered his own version of its solution – instead of trying to somehow force the Greeks and Turks to live in the same state – to give each nation a state

“Turkey’s main motive is economic. She needs control over the shelf of the northern part of Cyprus. If the island is divided, it will be the shelf not of Cyprus, but of Northern Cyprus (Turkish),” political scientist-Turkologist Yashar Niyazbayev explains to the newspaper VIEW. And there are significant gas fields on this shelf, which Turkey is now trying to drill and for which it is subject to sanctions from the EU.

To the greatest extent, we have evidence of a sharp intensification of Turkish foreign policy expansion. Which has moved to a qualitatively new level – from the use of economic instruments to territorial expansion.

Ideologically, this expansion is based on three pillars – pan-Islamism, neo-Ottomanism and pan-Turkism. The last two were the most actively promoted.

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