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Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has this week endured some fairly caustic and biting critiques from old enemies Israel and Greece. While the former presented the Turkish leader as a toddler in the lap of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the latter mocked Turkey’s “junk” fighter jets as vastly inferior to its own. Well, when you dish it out the way Erdogan so often does, you can’t have too many complaints when it comes back at you. First the Israeli episode. Releasing a July 21 social media post (see below) that portrayed an infant Erdogan in the Iranian supreme leader’s lap, Israel’s f…