Regardless of the limitations - or perhaps because of them - Western leaders are likely to welcome the CHP candidate with open arms should his party win the election, analysts said, especially given Turkey’s renewed strategic importance to NATO amid the war in Ukraine. “Turkey is, in a way, stuck between its natural economic anchor, Europe … and to a smaller extent the US, and this tragic Russian chessboard, where it has locked itself in many ways with all the constraints that Russia can impose on Turkey,” Marc Pierini, former EU ambassador to Turkey, said during an Al-Monitor webinar on the elections on Monday. Kilicdaroglu has already said he will maintain relations with Moscow should his coalition be elected, reinforcing assessments that Turkey’s once binary alignment with the West is likely to remain a relic of the Cold War. Turkey faces a widening foreign trade deficit, and Putin has threatened to turn the screws on Ankara’s economy before. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in April the two countries reached $62 billion in total trade in 2022, according to Russian state media, in contrast to $33.8 billion with the United States for the same year. Russia has significantly expanded its economic ties with Turkey since the war in Ukraine.
Yet Turkey’s economic vulnerability, seen most urgently in the volatility of the lira, makes that a tall order, experts said. Kilicdaroglu told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Tuesday that if elected, his government would comply with the West's sanctions on Russia while maintaining Russia's investments in Turkey.
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