The two angry men on Europe’s borders: loud, proud, and impossible to ignore
Natalie Nougayrède
Wednesday 29 October 2014 03.00 EDT
Two angry men. They govern large countries that border Europe. They rail against the west, which is at great pains to find the right way to deal with them. It seems that hardly a week goes by without Recep Tayyip Erdogan or Vladimir Putin lashing out at the United States or Europe. In a recent diatribe in front of Istanbul university students, Erdogan warned against modern-day “Lawrences of Arabia” trying to undermine Turkish power.
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