The next Russo-Turkish war?

This could end up as a major war, and since Turkey can easily block Russian ships heading for the Mediterranean, Russian victory would not be quick or easy. But they would win in the end, as they always do, and Russia’s victory would make it the paramount power in the eastern Mediterranean.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyib Erdogan, left, pictured on June 29, 2019, with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Osaka, Japan. Mr. Erdogan, who has ruled Turkey for the past 17 years, says he is going to start a war with Russia at the end of this month. Just in Syria, of course, where both Turkey and Russia have already been meddling in the civil war for years. He’s not completely deranged.Photograph courtesy of the Kremlin

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

February 24, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—Turkey has not won a war against Russia since the 1600s, although there have been at least half a dozen of them. You would think that even the most aggressive Turkish leader would try to avoid another one, but you would be wrong. President Recep Tayyib Erdogan, who has ruled Turkey f...

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