Gradually since 2003, Turkey\'s autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from the late Ottoman sultans to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.
Erdogan has picked an unorthodox model.
Here the leading authority Soner Cagaptay , author of The New Sultan -- the first biography of President Erdogan -- provides a masterful overview of the power Politics in the Middle East and Turkey\'s place in it.
Gradually since 2003, Turkey\'s autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from the late Ottoman sultans to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey