He worked “underground” in the Turkish political system and came out gradually as a Islamist sort of like Chavez using democratic means to bring a communist system to Venezuela.
The notion that just because of NATO such a man (who promoted the subversion of Egypt when the Muslim Brotherhood ran it for awhile because of the “Arab Spring” and has waged a deadly campaign including terrorism against Kurds in his own country and neighboring ones) is an ally of the United States just doesn’t hold water.
Yep. Sissi and the newly freed Egyptians would gut Erdogan like a fish if they got their hands on his dirty Islamic butt.