Turkish-Russian Relations

Book excerpt: Turkey and Russia are countries with growing international importance. Turkish-Russian Relations: Prospects and Challenges analyzes Turkish-Russian relations from multiple perspectives in order to better understand the multifaceted arenas of their cooperation and how these relations may affect the collaboration with other countries. The first part of this book starts with a geopolitical analysis of Turkish–Russian relations in the context of the Middle East and then delves into the origin of these relations with reference to Cold War realities still in play today. The next part of the book analyzes the Turkish-Russian relations in terms of micro-level studies, with special reference to mass media, suicide, and migration, to give color to a dynamic and constantly changing geopolitical relationship.