Changing Face of Turkey

Rumel Dahiya

Archive data: Person was Deputy Director General of IDSA from October 2010 to October 2016 Joined IDSA February 2010 Expertise Net Assessment, India’s Defence and Security Policies, West Asia Education… Continue reading Changing Face of Turkey read more

Turkey is blessed with a favourable geography. It straddles Asia and Europe, is surrounded by sea on three sides, controls the only link to the Black Sea, and has moderate climatic conditions, abundant energy resources in its neighbourhood and a defensible terrain. It also has the civilisational and historical past, having ruled over large swathes of territory including North Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, Caucasus and Central Europe in the heyday of the Ottoman Empire.