Turkije staat alleen in de regio - en de wereld

On Tuesday it seemed that Erdogan’s anger over the loss of the most friendly Egyptian regime to Turkey in a decade had driven him crazy. He resorted to Protocols of the Elders of Zion-esque nonsense to try to sully the name of the Egyptian army, declaring that the coup is the result of aconspiracy between the Egyptian military and Israel, citing “proof” from a “Jewish intellectual” (Bernard-Henri Levy) from two years ago. He was thus revealed as a prisoner of concepts typical of anti-Semitic thinkers who laid the groundwork for the despicable idea that Jews control everything and run the world. 

Such statements certainly do not help the Muslim Brotherhood, but Erdogan - whose declarations have already created a deep rift between Egypt and Turkey - seems to think Turkey no longer has anything to lose. The outcome is that Turkey’s leader, the man who wants to influence the Middle East, is taking Turkey out of the circle of decision makers in the region.