Who lost Turkey?

I still love the New York Times. A great newspaper; here's a simply perfect and objective account by Sebnem Arsu (with the help of many other reporters, including Isabel Kershner, whom this site has criticized) of an important incident, the Turkish Prime Minister's walkout from Davos, to a hero's welcome back home. Journalism increasingly is going to have this international character. Erdogan's imputation of guilt over the slaughter of children to Shimon Peres and his sanctification of a diverse but mostly Muslim nation-state are fascinating. (Note that the transcript of the exchange with Peres is here rendered precisely and accurately (apparently), unlike the contemporaneous translation offered in the youtube video of the incident.) 
Phil Weiss, with thanks to Nader Hashemi.