1、POLICY BRIEF01 2022e Ukraine War andTurkey as a“ird Pole”in a New International OrderPRIO Cyprus CentreVisitng address:52 Arsinois,1010 NicosiaMailing address:PO Box 25157,1307 NicosiaCyprusRe-Imaginingthe Eastern Mediterranean Projectwww.prio.no/cyprusISBN:978-82-343-0280-0(online)Aer annexing Crim
2、ea and facilitating thesecession of Donetsk and Luhansk in 2014,on 24 February 2022,Russia launched alarge-scale military invasion of Ukraine tosupposedly“denazify”the country,preventits prospective accession to NATO and theEuropean Union(EU),and demand itsdemilitarization.e invasion hasunfolded muc
3、h more slowly than expectedowing to the fierce resistance of Ukraineand the serious operational and planningweaknesses and mistakes of the muchstronger Russian army.e internationalcommunity reacted immediately anddecisively against Russia,imposing a seriesof costly sanctions.Turkey was among thecoun
4、tries that refused to follow suit,instead attempting to act as a mediatorbetween the warring camps.is approachreveals the continuation of certain Turkishforeign policy tendencies,and aims tosecure a new international role for Turkey.Brief Points:e war in Ukraine will have agreat impact on the intern
