Birth: 1954
I think it's important to remember the tensions between Turkey and Russia predate this jet shoot down by some time. I mean, Russia's long been Bashar….
And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a large….
We are seeing reports that NATO's sending early warning radar planes and German military personnel to Turkey. That might reduce the chances of anothe….
Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither Moscow….
The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment..
He [Erdogan] has crept up to the edge talking about mistakes by pilots. But he also knows that with leaders like himself and Vladimir Putin, apologie….
here are problems with the Turkish products inside Russia and the tourism going down. People are worried about that. But the really big economic weap….
We are trained to ask "What's wrong and how we fix it?" Instead, start by asking - "What works, what have we got, what's possible and who cares?".