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‘Turkey’s aggression threatens to destabilise the Mediterranean and fracture NATO’ – HSC Senior Fellow

31 August, 2020

Human Security Centre (HSC) Senior Fellow Simon Schofield has had a comment piece examining Turkey’s foreign policy in the Mediterranean region published in Reaction. In the article, he outlines how Ankara’s conflict with Athens over maritime Exclusive Economic Zone boundaries and sponsorship of jihadists represents the latest manifestation of a Turkish foreign policy approach that risks undermining NATO and the West.

The full article can be found here.

Image: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Source: Visita del Presidente de Turquia a la Cancilleria del Peru/CC BY-SA 2.0)

About Simon Schofield

Simon Schofield is a Senior Fellow at the HSC and the Assistant to the Directors' Office. His main research interests lie in the fields of national security, intelligence and counterterrorism.