Syria Drawn Into Turkey’s Crisis

Abstract

Ever since the long-standing alliance between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the powerful U.S.-based Turkish Islamic leader Fethullah Gülen collapsed on December 17, Turkey has been gripped by a major political crisis. On that date, a huge corruption scandal was revealed, involving many key figures in Erdoğan’s government and entourage. Since then, the two camps have been locked in a struggle to control Turkey’s ruling Islamist movement..