Game changer Turkey

What was the cost of Turkey realizing its acute wrong Syria policy? I could start counting the costs by placing right at the top Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkey's former prime minister. Davutoğlu's continued premiership would have made it impossible for Turkey to modify its Sunni-obsessed perspective by crippling its historical, cultural and of course political clout.

The neo-Ottomanist expansionist aims of Turkey, of course could not be totally credited to Davutoğlu, but he was the architect of the collapsed project which must be considered as one of the fundamental reasons for today's drastic situation. Naturally, the neo-Ottomanist hallucinations could not be solely blamed for the tragedy that has been continuing for so many years in Syria. Millions of people had to abandon their homes, displaced or compelled to seek refuge outside their homeland, while hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives as the country was almost completely destroyed. For what? Just for the sake of a regime change in Damascus? Or, was bringing a Sunni caliphate regime to the Middle East the aim and Syria was compelled to pay a portion of the price for such a mammoth hallucination?

The ousting of Davutoğlu and the arrival of Binalı Yılıdırm as the Chief Vizier of Turkey's absolute ruler, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was not of course solely a requirement for rerouting the Syria policy, but more so to consolidate Erdoğan's grip on the government, ruling party and the country with trustworthy ally Yıldırım. After all, a prime minister who started believing he had power would not be welcomed by Erdoğan.

 With the help of the political crutch, which proved its effectivity by rushing to service whenever his master was in difficulty, Yılıdırım successfully geared the...