- Burak Bekdil
- December 24, 2020
- Paper No. 1856
Ankara first attempted to use a commercial boycott as a foreign policy weapon in 1998, when Rome refused to extradite Kurdish nationalist Abdullah รcalan. Turkey has made scores of national boycott attempts since then, but they invariably lose steam quickly. President Recep Tayyip Erdoฤanโs most recent boycott threat against France will be no exception.