Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan may be something of a folk hero for the disenfranchised masses in the Middle East, but Turkey’s political influence with the powers that effectively continue to govern the region’s established order is all but gone.
Having seriously fallen out with Iran over Syria and with the Palestinian Authority over Hamas, Ankara is now in the process of alienating itself from other Arab powers — headed by Saudi Arabia — over Egypt, thus further deepening its regional isolation.
