US envoy: Everything West has done in Mideast since Ottoman Empire’s fall ‘has been a mistake’

US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack also declares at the Manama security dialogue that “since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, everything the West has done [in the Middle East] has been a mistake.”

“What works is benevolent monarchies,” he says.

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