Two years ago, Erdogan worshiping crowd besieged the capital of the Arab countries, Turkey seems to be expanding its trade and influence on his support for the entire region, "Arab Spring" democrats upstart.
Today, he suppressed protests Some of those who are sick at home, praised the former Ottoman rulers from the land is unlikely liberator; little better than they ousted dictator, and now they despised prime minister.
However, there are still many Arab Erdogan fans, as his popularity into alliance to overthrow Egypt, Tunisia and the Libyan leader has been split into feuding camps. And Islamic compatriots in the ascendant, Turkish leaders still can count on a warm welcome, even if the title is no longer greet him as a writer, the Middle East, "rock star" or "King of the Arabs."
In Tunisia, the cradle of regional uprisings, Erdogan received by the Islamic government in Istanbul last week, Turkish police fought protesters on the streets. However, there is little Tunisians greet him in 2011 as a model of combining Islam, democracy and prosperity initiative.
"Erdogan is just a flash in the pan, said:" In Tunisia Haykel Jbeli, a young subway train drivers. "After he talked so much about human rights, Taksim Square incident has revealed his true face, he is a hypocrite and he will always be our role model."
In Cairo, where liberals fear President Mohammed Mursi will be punishable by his Muslim Brotherhood's Islamic law, activist Khaled Daoud said that Erdogan's ridicule and use of secular Turks force on the streets has become a man of many Egyptians in Tahrir Square (Tahrir Square) cheering on the heroes of 2011, when he was among the first world leaders to tell Mubarak his time.
"We no longer see him as a moderate Islamist who is willing to continue with the existing model of democracy," said Daoud, who took part in the protests this week against Islamist control of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture. "People now see Erdogan as supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
"In a sense, we are faced with a similar attempt to rebuild in the name of religion under the dictatorship, whether in Egypt or Tunisia, of course, now we can see it in Turkey."
Hammami HAMMA Tunisia secular Popular Front, "Erdogan is a dictator" Like · ousted Zine El Abidine Ben Ali: "From the leaders in Egypt and Tunisia, he is no different. "
Erdogan entitled
Nine months ago, the Pew survey of Arab public opinion Erdogan is the most popular leader in two has a special position as the guardian of the holy city Mecca, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah. Many Arabs are still stuck to his attention.
In Benghazi, Libya uprising to overthrow the Gaddafi, now plagued by factional struggles, seat, student Muhammad Ali, aged 25, said: "Erdogan tried to stop the right to demonstrate."
"Turkey's economy has been hurt, tourism is affected, so if the government thought it was dangerous, they have the right."
27-year-old accountant who Drissi although Adil said, "This is wrong," and the protests could spell the end of Erdogan's ruling, engineer Ahmed Moussa, 31, reflecting the admiration Libya Turkey's economic success story under him:
"Erdogan has done a lot of Turkey and those calling for him to step down was crazy," he said. "Why do they want this?"
In Tunisia, Monem Layouni, whose bushy beard is a sign that his Islamist views, praised Ankara's historic allies in the region Israeli leaders clashed. He said: "Erdogan is an example of his model of democracy and Islamic countries."
Another former friends are Erdogan's anger is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Turkish leaders are still fighting with the rebels still by far the bloodiest of the Arab revolt has become popular.
Riyadh people Shami, just a few weeks ago to flee Damascus to Istanbul's famous activist against Turkey draw their own struggle between liberals in Taksim Square, and those living under authoritarian rule in the Arab comparison:
"Seeing firsthand Thaksin demonstrators, police fired water cannons, to give them relief summer, to see them go and party at night, I could not stop myself smiling," she said. "If this is the Assad regime, whose forces have killed hundreds, if not thousands of Taksim."
She worried that Erdogan, Turkey to Syria refugees open, you may be forced to leave, exposing their hostility: "We began to worry that if Erdogan was forced to step aside, there may be strongly opposed to the Syrian refugees," she said. .
Khalid al-Dakhil, and a Saudi political sociologist who has studied Turkey's regional strategy, said the unrest at home may prevent Erdogan hopes to play a major role in a Houesade Syrian - hope, he said, have been weakened, Arab and Western powers do not want a full backup rebels.
And Erdogan may be distracting, has lost the "immunity" from the aura of opposition, he was like, Dakhil considered impossible protest will take his power completely.
Opportunities and risks
In any case, there is little evidence in the home, or frustrated Arab liberals worry that the poor, will prevent Ankara to expand its economic and diplomatic presence in the backyard of the old Ottoman Empire, this has been accompanied by cooling it long-term efforts to join the European Union.
Commentator Amel Baylor Haji Ali in Tunisia, where Erdogan and dozens of Turkish business leaders agreed to a series of investment incentives last week condemning North Africa, a new "colonization." She asked: "Are we the Ottoman Empire once again become dependent risk?"
Erdogan's strategic risk in the new Arab democracies effects may come, if his Islamist allies suffered a rebound.
Hassan Nafaa, professor of political science at Cairo University and the Muslim Brotherhood's critics, saying that repression of dissidents in Turkey has become Egypt's non-Islamist opposition Erdogan, Ankara's success depends on the current policy of Egypt in turn, the success of the Egyptian Brotherhood.
"The Muslim Brotherhood ... If you come up with a reliable system to generate stable, maybe this will bring close to the Turkish government's ambitions," Nafaa said. "But if the Muslim Brotherhood will lose, they will lose at the same time."
 



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