US backstabbed Erdogan, now he gets to return the favor

The US game plan to frighten Erdogan and get him to fall in line on Syria has boomerangedPrima facie, there is nothing in common between the arrest of a highly-connected Turkish banker in New York on Monday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the arrival of the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Ankara two days later. But Turkish-American relationship has a long history of coercive diplomacy.Turkey used to be a "frontline state" in the Cold War era and its importance as strategic asse