This week, Turkish President Abdullah Gul called for a “recalibration” of Turkey’s Syria policies in view of the “realties that have emerged on our country’s southern flank,” as reported by Semih Idiz.
Gul’s charge was read as a challenge to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is immersed in a corruption scandal, while dealing with Ankara’s failed regional policies. Erdogan and his foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, stuck to the line that no blame for Turkey’s woes falls on them, and that the corruption inquiry is a coup supported by international powers and interests, as Tulin Daloglu reported.
