UNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS BETWEEN TURKEY AND RUSSIA: A NORMALIZATION OR ESCALATION?
Year: 2016

Recently Turkey and Russia relations are undergoing a serious crisis since the downing of the Russian warplane by Turkish air forces for the violation of the Turkish airspace on 24 November 2015. As a matter of fact, relations between two countries were at the highest level after the end of the Cold War and there was a growing collaboration in terms of political and economic relations between two countries. For example, in 2010, both countries agreed to allow visa-free travel and reached an agre