Putin and Erdoğan – A “Beautiful Friendship” of Illiberal Presidents
Journal: Academic and Applied Research in Military and Public Management Science
Year: 2022

Putin and Erdoğan’s “beautiful friendship” has been defining Russian–Turkish political, diplomatic and economic relations on the one hand, and the handling of many conflicts, including the Syrian civil war, for nearly two decades on the other. It can be said that in many cases, when the interests of the Russian and Turkish states clash with each other or there are conflicts of principle and values, it is the two presidents who, because of their similar habitus and political character, find solut