From Walkout to Wipe Out Turkey's prime minister Erdogan walked out of the World Economic Forum in Davos in an argument over the Israeli military operation in Gaza – and received a hero's welcome back home. A cheap triumph that could cost him and his country dearly, writes Kai Strittmatter Gesture of defiance: an angry Erdogan broke off a podium discussion with Peres in Davos on the recent Israeli military campaign in Gaza Two men summoned up a respectful tone for each other, although they don't usually get on. A bridge was built across the rifts of a longstanding hostility. With sobriety and pragmatism, they worked towards solving a decades-old and highly emotional conflict.