There might be a silver lining with Erdogan. He has ambitions to bring back the Ottoman Empire. The West as usual always tries to predict who its future enemies it will go to war with are and they always get it wrong. The West is going to fear the new Ottoman Empire more than China because of its proximity. Turkey has to "gobble up" other countries for it to be a true superpower and the West isn't going to like that. The rise of modern China was done without war, conquering, and invading. Turkey will have to do that for the Ottoman Empire to be reborn. Turkey has a long way to go to becoming a superpower and it will be a mess that the West will have to deal with along the way. As it was said in the 2014 Godzilla movie... "Let them fight!"