Turkiye’s interest in joining BRICS+ will be discussed at the bloc’s upcoming foreign ministers’ meeting this month
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on 4 June during a trip to China that his country is interested in joining the BRICS+ group of emerging economies.
“Certainly, we would like to become a member of BRICS. So, we’ll see how it goes this year,” Fidan was cited as saying on Tuesday by the South China Morning Post (SCMP) newspaper.
Fidan noted that since some European nations have opposed Turkiye's joining the EU, authorities in Ankara are considering BRICS+ as a “good alternative.”
"We cannot ignore the fact that BRICS, as an important cooperation platform, offers some other countries a good alternative. We see potential in BRICS,” the Turkish diplomat said.
SCMP also cited Fidan as saying that he hopes to attend the BRICS+ foreign ministers meeting scheduled for this month in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod.
“One of the topics on the agenda is expected to be the possibility of Turkey, a NATO ally, joining the BRICS grouping.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared an intention to join the bloc at its summit in Johannesburg six years ago, yet little progress has been made since then.
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As the disobedience continued, the US took the route of sanctioning the individual banks that did not comply in these countries, forcing them to have a sort of foot in both camps, one in the BRICs/Mir/CHIPs axis, another in the Western/SWIFT axis.
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....While Turkey has been towing a middle line, like the Gulf states and India, they have also been teeter-tottering a bit between both axes, a bit like India.
During the general turbulent economic environment for the entire world economy, Turkey has been grappling with a rapidly depreciating currency, and a crumbling economy...
To return to the line of the US targeting Turkish banks and private entities of other countries who stayed connected to Mir, Reuters described in September of 2022 described how this specifically propelled India to integrate the Mir system. Blowback, blowback, blowback.
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The US took the same route with other non-compliant countries, forcing countries to essentially have a foot in and out of both pools, economically impacting them negatively.
... the blowback of this was wreaking diplomatic and economic ties between the US and the countries we were attempting to impose sovereignty over.
March 2022 Flashback: US Hegemony Threatened As Saudis, UAE, India Ignore Threats of Sanctions, Turn to Russia/China — @PsyopDaily Original
... my last publication’s thesis that the US' unilateral sanctions are expediting the fall of the dollar as a reserve currency, and critically damaging to not just the countries sanctioned by the US, but critically damaging to America itself as well.
Will threats of sanctions on the neutral gulf states and India, as we’ve already seen take place, be productive, or counter productive to America’s own security and stability?
Just as Biden threatened India with sanctions, and it seemed to only push India into Russia’s arms, threatening the gulf states with sanctions will likely do the same, encouraging them to strengthen ties with China and Russia...
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