Erdogan has lost the plot

Erdogan's intervention in Libya puts Turkey into a potential confrontation with France, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, all of which back Haftar. So does Russia.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after 14 years in power, has finally lost the plot.
LONDON, U.K.—Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not an Islamist, in the extreme sense of the word. He doesn’t wear a suicide vest, he doesn’t behead people, he doesn’t even go around holding one finger up in the air to signify his hatred of those who...

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