Written By: Miloš Zdravković
Turkey's policy of " zero problems with neighbors "has experienced a fiasco and the fact is"zero friends, infinite problems". Simply Turkey under Erdogan loses old allies without gaining new ones.
Turkey, led by President Erdogan, has been moving in the wrong political, economic and geostrategic direction for several years, and its domestic policy mistakes are becoming a serious international problem. It is a conflict with the Kurds, the Alawites (Shiite minority) that risks exacerbating the extremely difficult situation in the region anyway.
In Turkey, the long-desired collapse of Iraq and Syria has improved the position of the Kurds in those countries, and Turkey did not expect that. The conflict between the Turkish Kurdish National Minority (about 20 percent of the population) has been ongoing since the establishment of the modern Turkish state. It is possible that Turkey has never been seriously determined to resolve the conflict with the Kurds.
The struggle between the Turks and the Kurdistan Workers ' Party in the southeast of the country is becoming increasingly fierce, and this is happening at the same time as the conflict between Ankara and Kurds in northern Syria and Iraq intensifies. The main danger of such developments is that the Turkish military could invade Syria under the pretext of creating a humanitarian corridor for refugees.