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who felt bypassed by globalization. Similarly, the elitist secular parties that had ruled Turkey for most of the 20th century were swept aside by Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party, which appealed to a rising Islamist middle class. And in Venezuela, it took only a few years in power for Hugo Chav

sident Trump's national security adviser, did lucra- tive consulting work for a firm with ties to the government of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan before and immediately after the 2016 election. Among other things, Flynn wrote an op-ed that urged the American government to expel Fethullah Gal

ia Daily Monitor. No- vember 14, 2014, https://iamestown.ore/program/protectine-the.mothertand-russias-counter-color-revolution.military-doctrinet 2. Leon Aron, 'Drivers of Putin's Foreign Policy; American Enterprise Institute, June 14, 2016, https-f/www asintg/oublication/ drivets•pfrputins-foreinpolicy/2

term extensively in 2009, its usage has continued to increase in frequency, not just among Kurds but among Turks as well, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who also used the term "Kurdistan" in a speech he made on Nov. 16 in Diyarbakir with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani

s as well, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who also used the term "Kurdistan" in a speech

President's attention in the region for the next three years. Yet three years is a long time to fill a power vacancy in the Middle East. And while Leon Aron exaggerates slightly in his assessment that, after the Syrian chemical deal, "Russia is on equal footing now as a power in the Middle East," he rig

officially portrayed as a strong if mildly flawed leader rather than as the man responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people. In Turkey, Erdogan has decreed that high school students should study the de- funct Ottoman language, challenging a nearly century-old reform linked to Mustafa Kemal At

Daily Monitor, No- vember 14, 2014, https://jamestown.org/program/protecting-the-motherland-russias-counter-color-revolution-military-doctrine/. 2. Leon Aron, “Drivers of Putin's Foreign Policy,” American Enterprise Institute, June 14, 2016, https://www.aei.org/publication/ drivers-of-putins-foreign-policy

ose who felt bypassed by globalization. Similarly, the elitist secular parties that had ruled Turkey for most of the 20th century were swept aside by Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, which appealed to a rising Islamist middle class. And in Venezuela, it took only a few years in power for Hugo Chavez