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Turkey has regained its place among the great powers. After having played the role of anti-Soviet NATO sentinel on the southern front for forty years, today it is a fully sovereign geopolitical subject. Empire under reconstruction, a century after the collapse of the Ottomans. Determined to retrace its traces between the Caucasus, the Middle East, North Africa and the Balkans. Ankara remains in the Atlantic Alliance, sure, but in its own way.