Erdoğan’s ambition to restore Turkey’s primacy in the Sunni world is driving him to collude with this challenge to the Western-devised regional order. Indeed, Turkey has been offering logistical support to the Islamic State, even as it has enabled the group’s murderous members to massacre thousands of civilian Kurds and Yazidis in the Syrian town of Kobani on Turkey’s doorstep.
埃尔多安重塑土耳其在逊尼派世界的主导地位的野心促使他将这一挑战与西方设计的地区秩序联系起来。事实上，土耳其一直在为伊斯兰国提供物流支持，即使这导致后者的残忍成员在毗邻土耳其的叙利亚小城柯巴尼（Kobani）屠杀了数千库尔德和雅兹迪平民。