But Erdogan is not cut from the same mould as some of the other Middle Eastern autocrats, and it would be a mistake to dismiss him as such. Hannah Lucinda Smith describes him in a new biography as ...

FILE PHOTO: Copies of John Bolton's book 'The Room Where It Happened' are pictured on display at a Barnes and Noble bookstore in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., June 23, 2020.