Baskan se ne slaže s tim i tvrdi da "Turska ima svoje vlastite razloge da se angažira na Bliskom istoku i ona izgleda da ne mari mnogo za to kako SAD i EU gledaju na produbljivanje odnosa Turske s Bliskim Istokom."
Baskan disagrees, arguing that "Turkey has its own reasons to engage the Middle East and it does not seem to care too much about how the US and the EU views Turkey's deepening relations with the Middle East."