Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) with President Obama
In a sprawling overview of President’s Obama’s foreign policy, The Atlantic, in its April 2016 issue, publishes a heavily-reported feature by Jeffery Goldberg, who delves into the machinations of the Obama’s foreign policy posturing.
In the article, which focuses on the Middle East crisis as upended by the Syrian war, Obama discusses certain world leaders who have frustrated him during the course of his presidency, among them Israeli President Benjamin and Turkey’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“Early on, Obama saw Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, the president of Turkey, as the sort of moderate Muslim leader who would bridge the divide between East and West,â€
