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Ömer Taşpınar
Senior Fellow and Director of the Turkey Project, Brookings Institution
Analysts at the Middle East Policy Council’s 67th Capitol Hill Conference titled “Israel, Turkey & Iran in a Changing Arab World” addressed how the national interests of these three nations have been affected by the ongoing political upheavals in the broader Middle East, particularly the challenge to the Syrian regime.
Ömer Taşpınar, Senior Fellow and Director of the Turkey Project at the Brookings Institution, explained that while Turkey may appear to be the biggest regional “winner” from the Arab Awakenings, increasingly assertive neighbors backed by more vocal public opinion on sensitive issues like the Palestinian question may actually diminish Turkey’s influence in the next few years, as its recent rise was in some sense due to the vacuum of leadership from its neighbors.
Please see below a full video of his comments from Thursday January 5th on Capitol Hill:
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Ömer Taşpınar
Senior Fellow and Director of the Turkey Project, Brookings Institution
Analysts at the Middle East Policy Council’s 67th Capitol Hill Conference titled “Israel, Turkey & Iran in a Changing Arab World” addressed how the national interests of these three nations have been affected by the ongoing political upheavals in the broader Middle East, particularly the challenge to the Syrian regime.
Ömer Taşpınar, Senior Fellow and Director of the Turkey Project at the Brookings Institution, explained that while Turkey may appear to be the biggest regional “winner” from the Arab Awakenings, increasingly assertive neighbors backed by more vocal public opinion on sensitive issues like the Palestinian question may actually diminish Turkey’s influence in the next few years, as its recent rise was in some sense due to the vacuum of leadership from its neighbors.
Please see below a full video of his comments from Thursday January 5th on Capitol Hill:
View the transcript of Dr. Taşpınar’s comments.
View the rest of the conference video.