A new political order is emerging in the Middle East, and Turkey aspires to be its leader by taking a stand against authoritarian regimes. Earlier this week, Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, went so far as to denounce the Syrian government’s continuing massacres of civilians as “attempted genocide.”
“We don’t have a clear concept of what the homeland is. There is no state policy in this regard unlike the former Soviet Union and the United States of today. Large states would crumble if they don’t have a clear-cut ideology on which to be founded.”