EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN – Turkey has over the past few weeks become the spearhead of a joint Western-Arab-Turkish policy aimed at forcing President Bashar al-Assad to cede power in Syria. This is quite a turnaround in Turkish policy, because over the past two years the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had gone out of its way to cultivate good relations with neighboring Syria, with whom it shares a long land border.
发自密歇根州东兰辛市——在过去几个星期里土耳其俨然成为了西方-阿拉伯-土耳其三方联合逼迫叙利亚总统阿萨德放弃权力的急先锋。而此举堪称土耳其在外交政策上的一大转向，因为过去两年里厄尔多安总理领导下的土耳其政府一直都在想尽办法与叙利亚这个共享漫长边境的邻国发展友好关系。