Birol Başkan on Turkey, Qatar and the geopolitics of the Middle East
June 23, 2017
Amid the ongoing face-off in the Arab Gulf, a particularly topical new podcast episode with BIROL BAŞKAN, an assistant professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. We discuss his book TURKEY AND QATAR IN THE TANGLED GEOPOLITICS OF THE MIDDLE EAST (Palgrave Macmillan).
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Here’s my Hürriyet Daily News review of the book.
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