Of course, especially since the beginning of the Arab Spring and the civil war in Syria, Turkey's geopolitical condition has become much more significant, and it is key for the western alliance section, the NATO alliance.
As I mentioned before, it not only has 600 kilometres of border with Syria, but it also neighbours Iraq, Iran, Armenia, part of Georgia to the sea, and part of Ukraine, so it is in a critical position in the Middle East. Because of that, the stability of the country is extremely important.
Before you entered the room, I enumerated some of the terrorist attacks that Turkey has faced in the last two years. The critical point is that these civil wars and the emerging failed states do not create problems only for the Middle East. They try to export insecurity towards the region, towards Turkey, and towards Europe as well.
Turkey has been very critical in basically sealing the border with Syria, trying to arrest people who are trying to be foreign fighters. So far, more than 2,000 people have been arrested for those charges, thousands of people were deported, and there is international co-operation with countries in NATO, with the United States, with European allies, to bring down any kind of international terrorist network, whether it is Al Qaeda or ISIS. We know that with the end of the operations in Syria the counter-terrorism operations will not end. It will take time. To have these operations globally, the world will need Turkey, and Turkey will need the world.