What went wrong with Turkish foreign policy?
(...) The thing is that Turkey is doomed to be misled by its confusions and delusions, as long as it sees itself as the most “clever” and “able” actor in the region. Turkey’s Middle East adventure started with a delusion that it was “the major player” in the region and as long as the government refuses to revise this perception, it will put itself in difficult positions which come out of miscalculations. (...) 1. Now it becomes clearer that Turkey got it wrong in Syria (and in fact in the Middle East in general). In the very beginning, the Turkish government hesitated to denounce the Bashar al-Assad regime but soon after, had to adjust to its Western allies’ policy and turned into an arch enemy of the Syrian regime. At the time, Turkey was encouraged to take more initiative as a neighboring country but the government got it wrong and overdid it. First of all, it went too far in supporting the “opposition.” Then, Turkey could not comprehend the changing Western percept