Turkey news today centers on former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who announced Wednesday that he is withdrawing from party politics entirely and dissolving his opposition Future Party. The move ends the political career of a man once seen as the architect of modern Turkey’s foreign policy strategy. Background Davutoglu served as Turkey’s foreign minister from 2009 to 2014 before becoming prime minister under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He was widely credited during that period with shaping Turkey’s “soft power” approach to regional diplomacy, expanding the country’s influence across the Middle…
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