Thanks to the Arab Spring ten years ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had developed a neo-Ottoman strategy aimed at regaining influence over North Africa and the Levant, lost a century ago.
The results are mixed.
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This very determined Muslim Brother tried to establish himself in Egypt and Tunisia, but he failed.
In Syria, despite his logistical support to rebel Islamist units, he did not succeed in dethroning the Baathist Bashar al-Assad (close friend turned enemy);
it only occupies the Idlib pocket (located in the north-west of the country and as large as the French department of Drôme).
This pocket serves as a reservoir for jihadists for its foreign operations.
So he sent to Libya, to support the Islamist militias in their fight against the Libyan National Army of General Haftar based in Cyrenaica or in the Caucasus, to attack the Christian Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh.
It is on the Libyan theater - where the battalion commander Mustafa
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