Erdogan's Ambitions and Plans

Cignon: Is it unfair to see Erdogan as a sort of modern-day Sultan and neo-Ottoman? In other words, another head of a new Ottoman Empire. He wants to buy new fighter jets to replace his old obsolete and aging Air Force planes because Turkey was booted out of the F-35 program for essentially buying Russian missiles back in 2019. But he's very slightly cooperated with the U.S. I think some of the pressure that we've put on has helped in designating our finances of terrorism, specifically ISIS networks inside of Turkey," Cignon says.