Erdogan has been bitching for ages, before him it was
Cypress.
It is the crossroads to the East and West, going back millennia.
Atakurk was Ok for a while except when he sucked.
Right, but since we still have Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy, which holds that history is linear and progressive (both false), we constantly fail to see pattern repetition and we always bet one of the 5% of any of these savage or barbarian populations who can speak English and wear a suit and a tie.
The Infidel Turk does not change. The geopolitical imperatives for whoever holds Anatolia and SE Europe do not change.
Forget Ataturk. He was an oddity. Remember the Gates of Vienna. Remember Mohacs. Remember the field of blackbirds, and plan accordingly.