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Turkey’s 'Precious Isolation' In the Middle East - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Turkey’s 'Precious Isolation' In the Middle East

By: Semih Idiz for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on August 20.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan may be something of a folk hero for the disenfranchised masses in the Middle East, but Turkey’s political influence with the powers that effectively continue to govern the region’s established order is all but gone.

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