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oast a combined GDP of $32 trillion, versus the SCO nations' combined $10 trillion. So why did Erdogan announce that he had told Russian President Vladimir Putin that if Turkey were allowed to join SCO "we will forget about the EU"? Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan dropped that bomb on Jan. 25. With Turk

urkish hopes for the EU membership diminishing, he declared the SCO to be a viable alternative to the European Union . "I said to Russian President Vladimir Putin,`You tease us, saying, `what [is Turkey] doing in the EU?' Now I tease you: Include us in the Shanghai Five and we will forget about the EU."'

unce that he had told Russian President Vladimir Putin that if Turkey were allowed to join SCO "we will

Absorbing new members, or figuring out the protocols for new members to be formally acceded, is merely one of the many problems the SCO faces. The Organization's security structures, including the unfortunate-acronym RATS Center [Regional Anti- Terrorism Structure], have yet to fully flesh out their purpose

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n the region? Join us for a discussion with Helga Maria Schmid, the Secretary General of the OSCE, on current challenges facing the OSCE and how the Organization sees its future role in European and Eurasian security, including in post- conflict Ukraine. The discussion will be chaired by Ambassador (ret.) Ph

ob- lems escalated, the house, with only minor improvements, was acquired for $96 million by Dmitry Rybolovlev, an oligarch who was part of the close Putin circle of government-aligned industrialists in Russia, and who, SIEGE 15 in fact, never moved into the house. Trump had, miraculously, earned $55 m

ent's signature piece of real estate: the government could seize Trump Tower. +t 4 In mid-March, a witness with considerable knowledge of the Trump Organization's operations traveled by train to Washington to appear before the Mueller grand jury. Picked up at Union Station by the FBI, the wit- ness was driven