"... This is the first time Erdogan has hinted Turkey might intervene in Syria. It wasn't one of those intemperate outbursts for which he is well-known. Erdogan intended it as a calculated affront to the Syrian regime and he had the Sunni Muslim Arab audience in mind.
Two-way assertiveness
The context becomes important. Damascus has succeeded in blunting Turkey's attempt to incite violence in Syria. The Syrian army took hundreds of casualties but Turkish interference has been thwarted. Turkish intelligence now faces the unenviable task of starting all over again. To Turkey's discomfiture, there has been no uprising in Damascus, or in Aleppo.
A setback in Syria embarrasses Turkey in front of Saudi Arabia and even tiny Qatar. Ankara's pretensions that "Turkey's model is rising" in the Arab world - to quote Umit Boyner, head of the Turkish Industry and Business Association, are getting nowhere in Syria...(continue, here)"
Monday, August 8, 2011
"Erdogan knows the Saudis & Qataris will finance his venture to defend "Sunni empowerment" in Syria"
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