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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Urooba Jamal

Turkey’s foreign policy: From past to potential post-Erdogan era

Supporters of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, presidential candidate of Turkey's main opposition alliance, cheer during a rally before the May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections, in Tekirdag, Turkey, April 27, 2023 [File; Murad Sezer/Reuters]

In August 2019, after inspecting the cockpit of Russia’s then-new fifth-generation Su-57 fighter warplane, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, if it was for sale.

“Yes, you can buy it,” Putin responded with a smile, as he enticed Erdogan with Russia’s latest foreign jets at the MAKS-2019 international air show outside Moscow.

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