http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/world/europe/erdogan-turkey-unga-2016-united-nations.html 2016-09-20 17:08:46 Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Fighting Terrorism, but on Turkey’s Terms In vowing to continue to fight ISIS, Mr. Erdogan is likely to demand cooperation in fighting Kurdish militants and loyalists to Fethullah Gulen. === More than two months after a failed military coup came close to toppling him from power, President Against that backdrop, Mr. Erdogan will address the Last month, Mr. Erdogan, in ordering Turkey’s military into Syria to clear the Islamic State from the border town of Jarabulus, did what the United States has long asked him to do: Go all in in the fight against the terrorist group. Mr. Erdogan may have targeted the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, in his foray into Syria, but there is no doubting who he considers the country’s primary enemies: Kurdish militants fighting against the state in southeast Turkey, and loyalists to Fethullah Gulen, an Islamic cleric who lives in self-exile in Pennsylvania. In vowing to continue to fight the Islamic State, Mr. Erdogan is likely to demand cooperation from the international community in fighting Kurdish militants and the Gulen network. This puts the United States in a bind because it has come to rely on Syrian Kurdish fighters, enemies of Turkey, to battle the Islamic State. Furthermore, Turkey has demanded Mr. Gulen’s extradition, while the United States has said that the matter is up to the courts. Mr. Erdogan, a charismatic speechmaker and a divisive but populist leader, is never slow to proclaim Turkey’s greatness. Expect him to take the moral high ground when it comes to the refugee crisis, and he may have a point: Turkey has taken in more than three million Syrian refugees, a fact he often uses to shame the West over its reluctance to open its arms more fully to the Middle East’s dispossessed.