Is Turkey Being Excluded From the Middle East Equation?
By: Fuat Keyman Translated from Milliyet (Turkey).
With the Gezi Park events, the coup in Egypt, the Syrian crisis and the use of chemical weapons, the G-20 summit and the UN General Assembly, we observed a serious rupture and lack of confidence between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the West. A negative perception of Turkey prevails in the West.
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