President Erdogan is making grandiose claims about Turkey’s unrivaled influence in post-Assad Syria, from fat reconstruction contracts to quasi-colonial control over the north of the country and quashing or co-opting the Kurds. But for Ankara, that presumptuous vision is fraught with risk
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is convinced that following the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria, Turkey is now the Middle East’s dominant power, wielding unprecedented influence in Syria. And he’s not keeping his thoughts to himself.