Turkey: what is Recep Tayyip Erdogan playing?

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan finally gave up his plan to expel ten Western ambassadors, including the United States, France and Germany.

What does this episode reveal?

REUTERS / Osman Orsal

By: Adrien Delgrange

1 min

What went through Erdogan's head?

Why such a stroke of blood?

To finally go back.

The Turkish president was ready to engage his country in an unprecedented standoff with the West.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan finally gave up his plan to expel ten Western ambassadors, including the United States, France and Germany.

What does this episode reveal?

In one country, Turkey in the grip of serious economic difficulties.

Does Recep Tayyip Erdogan come out grown up?

Isolated?

Reinforced with these voters?  

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To discuss it

Nedim Gürsel

, Turkish writer, emeritus research director at CNRS.

Author of the book: "

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- Marc Pierini,

former Ambassador of the European Union to Turkey, from 2006 to 2011, researcher at Carnegie Europe in Brussels.

- Jean Marcou,

professor at Sciences Po Grenoble, and associate researcher at IFEA (French Institute of Anatolian Studies) in Istanbul.

He coordinated the last issue,

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