RBC Bluebay Asset Management<\/a> in London, who attended the conference. \u201cThat reinforces the idea that there needs to be an alternative to the Americans.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Antalya conference served not just as a foreign affairs gabfest but also as a venue for Turkey to lay out its view of the world and Turkey\u2019s place in it.<\/p>\n
In its fifth year, the gathering attracted an array of mostly non-Western officials and showed off the wide diplomatic network that Turkish officials say makes the country a valuable mediator.<\/p>\n
On day one, Ukraine\u2019s top diplomat updated a packed room about his country\u2019s efforts to push back Russia\u2019s invasion. The next day, his Russian counterpart held forth to a similarly large audience on the ways he said the West had mistreated Russia.<\/p>\n
Despite the Iran war, now on hold with a temporary cease-fire, U.S. and Iranian officials both traversed the crowds queuing for coffee and sandwiches to reach their respective meetings. They did not meet.<\/p>\n
Addressing the opening ceremony on Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey said the global system was in \u201ca moral and existential crisis\u201d and repeated his mantra that \u201cthe world is bigger than five,\u201d his oft-repeated criticism of the limited number of permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council.<\/p>\n
He criticized Israel for what he called its genocide in Gaza and its military expansion into Lebanon, Syria and Iran.<\/p>\n
Turkey was ready to help negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, he said, without criticizing Russia for starting it.<\/p>\n
He blasted the war in Iran, but without mentioning the United States or Mr. Trump, with whom he has a cordial relationship.<\/p>\n
Many participants expressed frustration with the Iran conflict.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe find ourselves subject to Iranian attacks that were unprovoked in a war that we tried to prevent,\u201d Jordan\u2019s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, lamented during one panel.<\/p>\n
Two senior American officials attended. One of them, Tom Barrack, Mr. Trump\u2019s ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, ruffled feathers by saying during a public interview: \u201cThis part of the world respects only one thing: power. And if you don\u2019t reflect power, if you reflect weakness, you are on your heels.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that the only governments that had worked in the Middle East were \u201cbenevolent monarchies\u201d and republics that were run in similar ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cCountries that have put on this cloak of democracy or that we have gone after for human rights have failed,\u201d he said, he said, mentioning the Arab Spring uprisings that began in 2010 and produced short-lived democratic governments in Egypt and Tunisia.<\/p>\n
The clearest example of steps toward greater regional cooperation was a meeting on the sidelines of the conference on Saturday between the foreign ministers of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan, who hope to deepen their cooperation.<\/p>\n
Experts said such coalitions could not fill all the gaps left by the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe trouble that the region feels vis-\u00e0-vis the U.S. is that the U.S. still is indispensable for many regional actors, but it is also unreliable and coercive,\u201d said Galip Dalay, a senior research fellow at Chatham House who was at the conference. \u201cHow do you deal with an actor that is indispensable, coercive and unpredictable at the same time?\u201d<\/p>\n
He predicted that Turkey and other countries would continue to pursue such initiatives, but only with countries that the United States would approve of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Turkey\u2019s showcase diplomatic conference in the Mediterranean resort town of Antalya over the weekend, the United States…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[80361,80359,80357,1480,14670,60,75,84,83,9,24,63,80358,80360,13094,2271],"class_list":{"0":"post-203013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-antalya-turkey","9":"tag-barrack","10":"tag-erdogan","11":"tag-international-relations","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-manhattan","15":"tag-manhattan-headlines","16":"tag-manhattan-news","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-recep-tayyip","21":"tag-thomas-j-jr","22":"tag-turkey","23":"tag-united-nations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}