Center for Strategic Communication

Turkey – Russia

By Patricia H Kushlis The Turkish military’s downing of a Russian SU-24 was no accident but neither was the Kremlin’s overflight of Turkish territory nor its attacks on Turkmen living in regions of Syria close to the Turkish border.  Russian violations of Turkish...

What We Are Reading

Key Reads Obama urges climate deal as U.N. summit opens in tense Paris Kim Hjelmgaard / USA Today President Obama urged his fellow world leaders on Monday to reach a landmark deal to curb global warming before it dooms the planet. At NATO, Turkey remains defiant over...

China And Russia: Locked In Reluctant Embrace

Things are slowing down a bit now in the wake of the Paris atrocity, though unfortunately am sad to say the story is likely to not go away. Still some interest around the topic though, and spoke to the Sunday Times about the noisy Sally Jones, to the Huffington Post...