Fasten your seatbelts for more trouble with Turkey in 2020.In the last 12 months, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has:
— Launched a unilateral military offensive into northeast Syria against Kurdish forces allied with the West to counter ISIS;
— Threatened to send millions of Syrian refugees to Europe if the European Union objects to his plan to resettle them in a buffer zone inside Syria;
— Begun installing Russian air defense missiles in defiance of NATO partners and the United States, prompting Washington to shut Turkey out of the F-35 advance fighter program;
— Shipped arms to Libya in breach of a U.N. embargo and offered to send troops to support the embattled government in Tripoli;
— Threatened to send millions of Syrian refugees to Europe if the European Union objects to his plan to resettle them in a buffer zone inside Syria;
— Begun installing Russian air defense missiles in defiance of NATO partners and the United States, prompting Washington to shut Turkey out of the F-35 advance fighter program;
— Shipped arms to Libya in breach of a U.N. embargo and offered to send troops to support the embattled government in Tripoli;
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