Introduction
The main purpose of this study is to provide a better understanding of Turkey and Russia’s bilateral relations by reviewing the history of those relations, especially in light of recent events in Syria, Libya, and the South Caucasus, and evaluating their grand strategies. In this regard, as a juste milieu, instead of focusing solely on their fierce competition and hostile discourse −or on the other extreme− their discourse of ‘strategic partnership,’ which has emerged through the evaluation of recent events−we focus on the ‘gray zone,’ where the two extremes come together, in which smart alignment and flexible competition are found.
