Turkey is the new superpower of the Middle East. More ominously, it is an overtly Islamist power with pretensions of restoring its influence under the Ottoman Empire. Toward that end, Turkey has fashioned itself into a modern military dynamo—and has deployed its proxies across the entire region to destabilize multiple regimes and enhance their own interests. 

It isn’t only in places like Libya or Syria where Turkish proxies are sweeping away the old order on behalf of the would-be sultan, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey has even moved into the Indian subcontinent, where Ankara is moving to prop up the embattled Islamist government of Pakistan. 

Turkey had already signed several joint-defense development project........

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