Is Turkey’s Erdogan a Model for Middle East Leaders?
Aijaz Zaka Syed, opinion editor of The Khaleej Times of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has an article in the November 5-11, 2009 edition of Egypt’s Al-Ahram Weekly Online in which he asserts that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan exhibits the political courage and candor all Middle East leaders should exude. “Turkey’s Ottoman Empire died a quiet death nearly a century ago,” Aijaz Zaka Syed writes. “But the country continues to enjoy a unique eminence of leadership across the Middle East and in much of the Muslim world.