Respectfully to disagree with Butterfly,

But Turkey has ZERO stabilising influence in Middle Eastern geopolotics. The Middle East is in majority Arabic, and Arabs consider them as a distablising force, as they are at odds with every surrounding country, they have switched to European alphabet and for another very good reason: they buy arms from and are allies to Israel. They are just a good influence for the superpowers to keep the straits open and nicely controlled. Turkey expresses no affection towards Arabic countries, but only to build an east-west Pan-Turkic influence through the Caspian sea.

Moudir