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For Erdogan, Christmas — So To Speak — Is Coming Early This Year

Seismic events in Syria show how Ankara will easily don the mantle of regional power broker, even if some feathers are quietly ruffled.

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President Erdogan of Turkey is consolidating power. Alexis Mitas/Getty Images
ANTHONY GRANT
ANTHONY GRANT

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk he will never be, but the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has shown President Erdogan to be the shrewdest leader of Turkey in recent history.

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ANTHONY GRANT
ANTHONY GRANT

Mr. Grant, a California native who has written for many major newspapers including France-Soir and the New York Times and worked in television at Paris (France24) and Tel Aviv (i24news), is now based in Athens as a staff reporter and editor of The New York Sun.

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