Turkey Asserts Self as Bold Regional Power
Rising tensions with Israel, Turkey's turn to the East raise questions about Ankara's ambitions, future course
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in North Africa this week in what he is calling an expression of partnership with the emerging democracies of Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. His trip coincides with a critical decline in relations with Israel and an attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo - as well as next week's Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations. Erdogan's "Arab Spring" tour and recent public statements have raised concerns in some quarters that Turkey is looking to create an alliance with Egypt that could be hostile to Israel - and, in a much more general sense, is indicative of what some have termed "neo-Ottomanism."
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