This Week in Turkey‘s guest was Sinan Ülgen, who is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, chairman of the Istanbul-based think tank EDAM -The Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies – and a former diplomat.
Mr. Ülgen provided insight on the motion to deploy troops to Libya that was approved by the Turkish parliament on January 2. He assessed Turkish interests in the region, the risks of sending military aid to Libya and the potential conflicts in foreign policy it may lead to.