Valdai Club

BRICS membership would significantly increase Turkey’s international authority and prestige. The country would be able to actively participate in the development of global economic and political strategies, offering its ideas and formulas for solving global problems, write Igbal Adil Oglu Guliyev and Murad Sadygzade.

In the near future we can expect the normalisation of relations between Turkey and Syria, since this is beneficial and necessary for both parties, writes Murad Sadygzade, President of the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Head of the Centre for Education and Cooperation of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This process will enter an active phase, probably after the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Turkey. Moscow is demonstrating pragmatism and a desire to build a mutually beneficial dialogue that takes into account the national interests of all parties, which distinguishes its approach from that of Washington, which puts its interests above all else.

The possibility of introducing an “oil embargo” has been eliminated due to its unprofitability and ineffectiveness. The current escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict demonstrates the lack of unity among Arab and Islamic countries on the issue of pressure on Israel and its Western allies. This is due to a number of reasons.