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If Erdogan Keeps Alienating Neighbors and Allies, He ‘Cannot Survive’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime “cannot survive” if it continues to anger nearly every one of its international neighbors, according to Mark Sleboda, an international relations and security analyst who spoke with Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear on Wednesday.
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"The Erdogan regime cannot survive if it continues create bad relations with all of its potential major partners and neighbors," Sleboda told Loud & Clear hosts Brian Becker and John Kiriakou.

​Then, "add the long-standing grievances between [Turkey] and Greece that have now resurfaced; [add the] animosities with Iraq, Turkey having sent military forces into northwestern Iraq against the wishes of the government in Baghdad," he said. Ankara also recently sent naval ships into Cyprus' exclusive economic zone, angering Greece and Egypt.

"Turkey has managed to alienate nearly all of its previous allies and its neighbors. We're talking the United States, Russia and the European Union, as well as all of its neighborhood countries."

"This is not a good thing" if the Turkish people would like Erdogan to continue serving at the helm, the analyst said.

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