President Erdogan to the Rescue?
Joshua Walker
August 12, 2014 · in Commentary
The coronation of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who was elected to the presidency by the people of Turkey on Sunday, was short lived given how unsurprising the election results were and the realities of the neighborhood that the new president finds himself having to navigate. The inconvenient timing of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) advances in Iraq necessitates decisive action from Ankara that had been put on hold until after the presidential election.
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