事实上，土耳其可以动摇普京占领克里米亚的借口 — — 即为那里的俄罗斯族提供保护 — — 并提出要保护自己突厥鞑靼同族，因为过去曾受到俄国的恶劣对待，这些人非常希望继续留在乌克兰的治下。
Indeed, Turkey could turn Putin’s justification for seizing Crimea – that he is protecting ethnic Russians there – against him, by arguing that it is protecting its Turkic Tatar kin, who, given Russia’s ill treatment of them in the past, are anxious to remain under Ukrainian rule.