Russian-Turkish Relations in the 21st Century, 2000-2012

Author(s): Sener Aktürk
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 125
Pages: 2-5
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2013

Russian-Turkish relations improved significantly after the end of the Cold War, against a background of centuries of fierce geopolitical rivalry and conflict. By the early 2000s, some observers even began speaking about a possible Russian-Turkish alliance, but the late 2000s witnessed serious Russian-Turkish disputes, even bordering on proxy wars, over Georgia and Syria. Nonetheless, Russia and Turkey are bound together by a large and growing trade volume, jointly founded international organizations, a nuclear reactor project, and cooperation against international and domestic ethnic separatist terrorism.

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