As the international leaders will convene in Berlin on January 19 for a conference to try and resolve the civil war in Libya, there is a great deal of jockeying going on. Turkey is playing a key role in this. Erdogan vs. Assad Since 2011, the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fought hard to topple Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Erdogan’s goal is to replace the Assad regime with a Muslim Brotherhood administration loyal to Ankara. In 2017, Erdogan publicly called the Syrian leader a “terrorist” and stated that there can be no peace process “with a Syrian president who has killed close to a million of his ... (full story)