What you said.
The rest of it may be true to the extent that Erdogan sees himself as the Caliph of the Caliphate and every country in the region and even elsewhere seems to be choosing sides in case there is a wider war coming.
Before Erdogan came along....if you’d asked anyone in the Med who was the President of Turkey...it was a fifty-fifty guess that people would know the guy’s name. Today? You can go across all of Germany and test people, and probably 95-percent of Germans know Erdogan. In some ways....he got Turkey noticed and on the map. In other ways...he’s created a long-term problem for the Turks.
I don’t see a war coming out of this. Erdogan needs to rattle his sword to show power but this is one country that really can’t afford a conflict with anyone. The neighbors all trade with them and it makes no real sense. They already are hurt by tourism going down and Europeans not showing up....this all leads to higher unemployment, and failed resorts sitting there without tourists.