On 13 January, the Atlantic Council published an article by Emadeddin Badi and Abdullah al-Jabassini, titled ‘Turkey’s Syria and Libya strategies add up to a Mediterranean power play’. The authors argue that Turkey is following its 2019 Libya strategy in post-Assad Syria by seeking to create facts on water' as it did on land, ‘using the promise of economic and political support to position itself as a dominant player in the country’. As such, Ankara views Libya and Syria as ‘interconnected pillars of its geopolitical strategy in the Mediterranean’, with Libya serving as a ‘gateway for Ankara’s regional ambitions and a platform for projecting influence’, they note, adding that Western actors should use this shift to recalibrate their bilateral relations with Turkey.
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