Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is seen during a welcoming ceremony for his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Ankara September 17, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Clinging to calls for military action in Syria and wedded to his backing for Egypt's ousted Islamist president, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan cuts an increasingly lonely figure in a region whose future he still hopes to help shape.
Finding himself in what one adviser calls "worthy solitude", Erdogan risks alienating some important Gulf investors in Turkey as well as weakening his diplomatic clout with international powers and Egypt's new military-backed rulers.
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