On a sunny October day in 2009 Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davuto-glu, beamed with pride as he inaugurated his country's consulate in Mosul, an Iraqi city that was once part of the Ottoman empire. "We see you as a part of ourselves; I am your minister," Mr Davutoglu declared. His words provided an early clue to his neo-Ottoman dreams of Turkey leading a Sunni Muslim arc spanning the Balkans, Central Asia and the Middle East.
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