A Friend in Need? Russia and Turkey after the CoupOne of the few beneficiaries of the failed July 15 coup in Turkey is likely to be Russia. The coup and the heavy handed crackdown president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is carrying out in response have strained relations with Turkey’s NATO allies, giving Ankara greater incentive to pursue cooperation with Russia. Erdoğan’s purge of the military, meanwhile, leaves it less capable of deterring aggressive Ru
