Middle East
Erdogan Seeks Trump’s Support to Shape Middle East How He Wants
Turkey has its eye on hundreds of billions of dollars of rebuilding contracts in Syria and elsewhere in the region.
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With Donald Trump threatening to upend American foreign policy again, one old acquaintance is aiming to benefit from a new era of American dealmaking in the Middle East.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to capitalize on the demise of the Assad regime in neighboring Syria and the ceasefire in Gaza. Should the dominos fall the right way, there could be hundreds of billions of dollars of rebuilding contracts and new trade as well as geopolitical influence.