Erdogan is more thinskinned than both Obama AND even Donald Trump. He is an Assad-wannabe, but w/o the power of Russian alliance. Erdogan is a believer in Sharia and radical islam, and it was a sad mistake of the Turkish voters to prop him up. Sort of like when the Palestinians bestowed Hamas with all kinds of electoral power. Vote in haste, repent in leisure.
Proof of that was his decision to say going to a maddrassah is qualification for college and rolling back secularization by allowing or even requiring head scarves.