Turkey's Gunboat Gambit In The Mediterranean Turkey’s Gunboat Gambit In The Mediterranean Authored by Burak Bekdil via The Gatestone Institute, Turkey, since 2011, has been waging a pro-Sunni proxy war in Syria, in the hope of one day establishing in Damascus a pro-Turkey, Islamist regime. This ambition has failed, costing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey …