12/27/2019:
President Tayyip Erdogan has revived plans to dig a canal on the edge of Istanbul despite opposition from hundreds of petitioners and the city’s new mayor against the kind of mega project that has come to define Turkey’s economic boom and bust.
Erdogan is pursuing his dream of grandeur, enabled by the absence, nay, the withdrawal of US presence. That crazy man currently in 1600 Pennsylvania is doing great damage to the nation and our interests as he whips up hysteria among his base, in pursuit of his own dreams of grandeur.