Turkey: NATO's Policeman in the Middle East/NATO’s Arm, the Neo-Ottomans http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26032

Erdoğan was coordinating each of the steps he was taking with the United States and Europe, believing that the Syrian regime was doomed to fall, wagering on playing a role in shaping another regime that would succeed that of Assad, and presenting himself as a model of “democratic” Islamists acceptable to the West. And after the events developed and reached what they have in Syria, he was systematically used by the Americans to convey messages to Assad – messages that could be summed up as “reform now or leave”.

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