India-Turkey ties: Ball is in Erdogan's court

The re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan as President of Turkey for a record third time comes at a time when the world order as well as the Islamic world are undergoing churn, triggered more by circumstances - especially competing nationalisms — than a realisation amongst the major players of the need for change. The Turkey election was not really one of the prominent drivers influencing the emerging world order but was nevertheless an important event for India and the rest of the world, especially the Islamic world, to take note of. During his tumultuous second term, Erdogan had begun to…