Where Does Erdogan Stand on Syria?
After meeting with US President Barack Obama, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his views on the Geneva process have changed and evolved.
Turkey's already clogged and failed Syria policy is inevitably changing. Practical implications of the change will be visible to the naked eye in the coming days.
To narrate how this is not only a topic to be analyzed, it is best to share this anecdote:
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a news conference on May 14 at Ankara Esenboga Airport, before his departure to Washington to meet US President Barack Obama, was asked by a journalist: “In your meeting with Obama, will you want a more aggressive policy against the Syrian regime?”
Erdogan replied, "We will discuss what kind of more active steps we can take. Measures decided at the Geneva I conference did not yield results. Initiatives such as Geneva II appear to us be trying to spread flour on a string [a Turkish idiom that means "hopelessly futile"] and make it stay there."
