Is Ankara waking up to what Trump really represents?
Having vilified President Obama, President Erdogan and his supporters are realizing that ties under Trump may not turn out to be what they hope.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s inner circle and political supporters in the media continue to vent their anger at former President Barack Obama with outlandishly exaggerated claims, while expressing hope that Turkish-US ties will be much better under President Donald Trump.
Erdogan’s foreign policy adviser Saadet Oruc, a former journalist who also writes a column in the pro-government daily Star, for example, points out that although Obama raised great expectations initially, he ended up as “one of the most unsuccessful US presidents ever.”
