usernameless
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The ME chapter is off-topic. The soft power works well for Turkics as far as i know (with Turkvision being my favorite), but there is clearly more room for improvement for Turkey vis a vis Turkic policies.Turkey should see itself as the champion of the Turkic but right now it sees itself as a regional power that needs to cozy up with the Arabs. Turkey has strategically diverted from its past partnership with Israel and is now cozying up with the Arab world, which can be a good thing but is playing out as a bad thing. Hardly had time to dabble with the Assad and Syria issue and it backfired right in the kisser, in ways that are still being analyzed and dissected (especially now with the Kurdish factor involved). The Soft Power projection you referred to needs to be completely re-thought.