Erdogan’s desire to restore the Ottoman caliphate has long been clear, and now it is becoming increasingly open. This is why he never strongly opposed the Islamic State: he had hoped to incorporate its caliphate into his own. The Islamic State caliphate is gone, but Erdogan’s caliphate dreams are undimmed.

“Caliphate is Erdoğan’s, Islamist columnist says,” Ahval News, March 4, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):