Analysis: Turkic World Project Falling, Dealing Blow to Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanism

Contrary to popular belief, the foreign relations of the government of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are not better than the disturbed economic and internal conditions. While Syria developments later last year gave Erdogan a new hope to see the doors to realization of long-held neo-Ottoman dreams open again, not only Syria has not turned into a gate of the Turkish influence return to the Arab world due to overflow of its crises, but also due to Turkey's complex economic challenges Erdogan now finds himself disillusioned, witnessing the unraveling of over a decade of investment in the Turkic World project.