This publication is not an isolated incident. On March 10th, two former US ambassadors in Turkey did not go as far as to suggest a coup against Erdogan, still they called him to "reform or resign", as goes the title of their article published in the Washington Post. One of the writers, Mr. Edelman, belongs to the core of neoconservatism. He is believed to have contributed greatly, from the sidelines, to the emergence of Erdogan, when influential people in the USA were looking around for a more "accommodating" and "friendly" person to replace as head of the Islamists the ousted by the army PM Erbakan, too "original" and too "authentic". As for the other co-author of the piece in Washington Post, Mr. Abravomitz, he avoided being identified too much with Neoconservatives, still his soul seems not to be very far from their positions.
Comment: Abramowitz was a PNAC signatory. Neocon enough for you?
Comment: Rubin, Abramowitz, and Edelman have all written an open letter to Erdogan basically telling him to get his act together. Really, they're fine with him cracking down on the Kurds, the press, etc. But even Erdogan is too overt and over-the-top for the tastes of the Neocons, who prefer to keep their pathocratic proclivities hidden behind a mask of sanity. Erdogan has no such mask; he's gone full nutjob.