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."
Baškan se ne slaže i tvrdi da „Turska ima sopstvene razloge za angažovanje na Bliskom istoku i čini se da se ne osvrće mnogo na to kako SAD i EU vide produbljivanje odnosa Turske sa Bliskim istokom“.