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Apr 29 2021 03:55 Gmt+3
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Turkey’s efforts to repair regional relations have been met with widespread mistrust, according to Spyridon Plakoudas, an assistant professor of homeland security at Rabdan Academy in Abu Dhabi.
Turkish officials have sought to play down tensions with a host of countries in recent months, including Egypt, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.
Writing for Gulf News, Plakoudas said the Turkish charm offensive aimed to disrupt regional initiatives against Ankara’s increasingly assertive stance in the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean.
In February, Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates held the first meeting of the Philia Forum of Mediterranean countries, to the exclusion of Turkey.
ATHENS: Common interests are bringing together regional coalitions of like-minded countries in the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean favoring stability, combating extremism and respecting international law in bilateral and multilateral formats.
The latest examples of this diplomatic activism are the meeting of the foreign ministers of Greece, Israel, Cyprus and the UAE that took place on Friday; and the forthcoming visit of Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos to Saudi Arabia.
The four-way talks in the Cypriot city of Paphos marked the first time that the UAE had participated in one of the multilateral forums that have been created in the eastern Mediterranean since 2010.