The re-elected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has appointed former secret service chief Hakan Fidan as the new foreign minister. Why this is a good signal for NATO and the EU.
His name is well known to the Turkish public. Hardly anyone had seen or heard of the country’s new foreign minister up until last weekend: there have been no interviews with Hakan Fidan, and he didn’t have a Twitter account as of Tuesday afternoon either.