Erdo?an swayed from one end to the other in 12 days

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, while in Iran, offered to become a mediator in Syria and in Yemen. He said, ?Iraq is a place we are shedding tears at. More than 100,000 people have died there up to now. History was destroyed. Similarly, 300,000 people have died in Syria. I am not interested in the Shiite or Sunni in here. I am interested in the Muslims. Human beings are the most honorable of beings.? 

It was only two weeks ago, in a joint press conference with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara, when Erdo?an had said, ?What the Houthi forces are doing in Yemen is only sectarian fights. This has tuned into Shiite-Sunni clashes. We can never view this kind of a thing as positive. Iran is trying to dominate the region. Could this be allowed? This has started to bother us, the Gulf States and many countries in the region. It is really not possible to tolerate this. Look at Iraq. They are struggling with Daesh [the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant] and with the Revolutionary Guards Iran sent there at the same time. Iran has to withdraw its forces from Yemen, Syria and Iraq? It has to respect the territorial integrity of these countries??

What has changed in 12 days, where we have come from calling Iran to withdraw from the region to the point of joint mediation? 

It is difficult to know; obviously the president speaks depending on which side of the bed he has woken up on in the morning. If it?s the reverse side, he scolds, and if it is the correct side, then he calls for mediation. 
Yes, 300,000 people have died in Syria. The number of people who have lost their houses, been displaced and became immigrants is no less than 6 million; about 2 million of them are living in Turkey now. 
When upheavals started in Syria, it was Erdo...