His support for fundamentalist groups, his son's actions etc: Look at my post right above yours, I clearly admit that he has supported those groups, the whole crux of my argument, is that his support for those groups has nothing at all to do with ideology and everything to do with alignment of interests. Exactly like the support of Carter and Reagan for the Mujahideen in Afghanistan(where al Qaeda originated from) , and to illustrate with an example from the middle east, exactly like the support of the secular Baathist regime in Syria of the Islamist Hamas prior to 2011. Do you consider Carter and Reagan to be sympathizers of militant salafist ideology? or Bashar to be a sympathizer of Sunni Islamist militant group linked with the brotherhood*.
*If you're not familiar with Syria's modern history, google Hama events(1982) during his father's time to see why that is as impossible as Reagan being a Jihadist sympathizer.
I'd argue that my support for Erdogan makes a lot more sense than your sympathy for Bashar, especially if we put aside politics, and look purely at their economic ideology but let's just agree that we all have our eccentricities
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and just to make one thing clear about my views on Erdogan and the AKP party in Turkey, I am mainly impressed by what they've done in Turkey. I'm not much of a fan of their foreign policy, especially when it comes to my country Libya. They've blindly supported one group of the ongoing conflict(namely the Misratans and the "Libyan Dawn" militias) instead of pushing for peace and talks between the two sides of the conflict. Though to be honest, most countries foreign policies are often extremely self serving and cynical.