{
  "id": 10430468,
  "title": "Erdogan playing East and West, winning room to maneuver",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/erdogan-playing-east-and-west-winning-room-to-maneuver",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-28T11:11:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/09/erdogan-playing-east-and-west-winning-room-to-maneuver/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Less than two months after his government hosted the NATO summit — which was framed as proof of Turkey’s pivotal role in transatlantic security — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has proposed full Turkish membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, an entity that has been described as being anti-NATO or a “rogue NATO.” The apparent contradiction […] The post Erdogan playing East and West,…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}