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G-20 summit returns Erdogan to the world stage

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan returns to the world stage after the G-20 summit, yet it's not clear whether he will be able to rise to the occasion and change his stance domestically in order to appear less authoritarian and anti-democratic.
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Coming right after the brutal Islamic State (IS) massacre in Paris, the G-20 summit in Antalya on Nov. 15 provided world leaders an opportunity to put aside differences over Syria in order to rally around the common cause of combating IS.

The summit also represented a personal triumph for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has now broken his isolation and returned to the world scene as a regional player. What the Financial Times said of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s high-profile presence in Antalya is equally true of Erdogan, who has now moved from being “an outcast to problem solver.”

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