The OTHER option would have been to NOT join Hillary and Obama in trying to overthrow Assad.
Oh well, too late.
I believe Erdogan behaves like Mussolini at the time. He sees his little victorious war didn’t come his way and he is now planning to focus of Libya. Didn’t work for Mussolini. Also Mussolini had Hitler and Erdogan had Obama when things started. Now it is a little bit more complicated. There is a chance that Erdogan falsely identifies with Suleiman I and there won’t be another Ottoman Empire.