Sunni Islamist
Davutoğlu's lost soul found at the Presidential Palace
The optimists were optimistic that former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's forced de-parture in May and his replacement with the pragmatic Binali Yıldırım would recalibrate Turkey's Sunni Islamist-based foreign (and domestic) policy. This columnist voiced hope that the optimists were right but predicted they were not. Call it blind faith in President Re-cep Tayyip Erdoğan's political codes.