Turkey and the Rise of the Caliphate
Posted by: John Phoenix
Turkey is the ONLY predominantly Muslim member of NATO. It shares its southern border with the former state of Syria and Iraq. Iran is on its eastern border. And to the North, Turkey looks out onto the Black Sea, toward Crimea, the location of Russia’s sole, indigenous warm-water port of Sevastopol.
Turkey is the gateway between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. The Bosphorus Strait, which runs through the middle of Turkey’s most populous city, Instanbul, and connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara. The Dardanelles then connect the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea. Collectively, this series of internal waterways running through northwestern Turkey are referred to as the Turkish Straits. And the Aegean...