Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held another of their frequent meetings in Istanbul on Jan. 8. The occasion was the inauguration of the TurkStream gas pipeline diagonally crossing the Black Sea to carry Russian gas to Turkey.

When Libya fell into chaos in 2011, France decided to involve NATO. Paris thought the international community had the responsibility to protect the Libyan people from its leader Muammar Qaddafi.