After WWII Turkey was used by the WEST as a bulwark against the U.S.S.R. With Erdogan seeing himself as the NEW Ottoman Emperor leading the NEW Islamic world things have changed.
Will the WEST address this new situation???
John Russell in 1853, in the run up to the Crimean War, quotes Nicholas I of Russia describing the Ottoman Empire as "a sick mana very sick man", a "man" who "has fallen into a state of decrepitude", or a "sick man ... gravely ill"