Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are available for common actions and site navigation.

Skip to content
  • Home Home Home, current page.
  • About
  • Have an account? Log in
NicholasDanfort's profile
Nicholas Danforth
Nicholas Danforth
Nicholas Danforth
@NicholasDanfort

Tweets

Nicholas Danforth

@NicholasDanfort

Senior Visiting Fellow, German Marshall Fund. Mideast Politics. Turkey. Maps. Historical Randomness. Retweets are not endorsements nor necessarily sarcastic.

midafternoonmap.com
Joined November 2012

Tweets

  • © 2019 Twitter
  • About
  • Help Center
  • Terms
  • Privacy policy
  • Cookies
  • Ads info
Nicholas Danforth‏ @NicholasDanfort

Nicholas Danforth Retweeted Akin Unver

I spent a decade being annoyed at ahistorical “US-Turkish relations worse than ever” takes, but around 2016 or so it started to seem like they really were.https://twitter.com/akinunver/status/1206313958216536065…

Nicholas Danforth added,

Akin UnverVerified account @AkinUnver
1975: Turkey suspends operations in all US bases in Turkey (and bars US access to İncirlik) and NATO is concerned 'security of the Eastern Mediterranean will be endangered'. History is a funny thing. Panic responsi…
Show this thread
4:53 AM - 16 Dec 2019
  • 6 Retweets
  • 24 Likes
  • Kerim Gallia Lindenstrauss Will Quinn Alexander Clarkson sabrina sergi Doğukan Taş Ali Nuriyev Devika Chawla Global Transformation
1 reply 6 retweets 24 likes
    1. New conversation
    2. Nicholas Danforth‏ @NicholasDanfort 5h5 hours ago

      Yes a lot of the rhetoric and issues are the same as ever, but the anger on both sides is deeper and the Soviet Union is gone.

      2 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
      Show this thread
    3. Nicholas Danforth‏ @NicholasDanfort 5h5 hours ago

      When congress imposed an arms embargo over Cyprus the rest of the US govt was eager to work around it. After Trump that won’t be the case now. Also the whole YPG business, whatever you think of it, wouldn’t have happened in the Cold War.

      2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      Show this thread
    4. End of conversation

    • © 2019 Twitter
    • About
    • Help Center
    • Terms
    • Privacy policy
    • Cookies
    • Ads info