Turkey made mistakes in Arab Spring `from day one´: Ex-FM
(WorldNews Turkey)

DUBAI: Turkey made mistakes `from day one` with its involvement in the Arab Spring, the country´s former Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis said on Monday. Discussing changes in Ankara´s policies on the second day of the fifth Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate, he spoke of decision-makers in the ruling party who believed they could `go back to the Ottoman times` and expand Turkey´s regional influence. `Realities in the field showed that Turkey had limits, and it couldn´t achieve what it thought it could,` Yakis said on the panel `The Dilemma of Imagined Power: Turkey.` He added: `Thanks to cooperation with Russia now, Turkey learnt in Syria that it had to adjust its policy to the reality in the field.`...