"Turkey’s newly faltering foreign adventures
By David Gardner
About this time last year Tayyip emerged as the name of choice for newborn Gazan boys. It came in the wake of the Israeli army’s assault on a flotilla of Turkish-flagged ships, trying to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, and Turkey’s retaliatory downgrading of diplomatic relations. By standing up to Israel, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, became a new hero for the Arab masses."
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