So what happens now for President Erdogan and his ‘new Turkey’. In terms of the new US President, they are left in a tricky situation. Criticized and praised in roughly equal measure by the previous President, they cannot rely on the old ‘enemy-of-my-enemy’ tactic.

Around a decade ago, ‘zero problems with neighbors’ was the major doctrine that shaped the country’s multidimensional foreign policy. Today’s ‘new Turkey’ tends to solve its problems more aggressively; hunting the Kurds, ensuring its military presence in many countries, and invading and reclaiming territories that were once part of the Ottoman Empire.