Has Erdoğan Turned Turkey From an Ally Into an Enemy?
Patrick Smith, Fiscal Times: Has Erdoğan Turned Turkey From an Ally Into an Enemy?
When the heedless Recip Tayyip Erdoğan ordered Turkish jets to bomb Kurdish targets in Syria and Iraq this week—ignoring vigorous American objections—he faced the Trump administration with a question it can’t flinch from much longer: Is Turkey turning from a longtime ally into adversary?
Erdoğan’s repeated betrayals can no longer be shrugged off, given the key role Kurdish forces play in the anti–ISIS alliance. As Team Trump accelerates the fight against the Islamic State, who’s going to take over in Mosul and Syria when ISIS is finally defeated?
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Erdoğan needs to keep the domestic focus on real (or imagined) foreign threats. Eventually, things may get bad enough in Turkey to unseat him, but what come after that could be worse.
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