If a cause is righteous and serves humanity then President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will support it at any cost even if it means he himself will be politically harmed. He has done this several times in the past and he will do it again because this is in his character and it is ingrained in his religious upbringing as a devout Muslim.

President Erdoğan has been outspoken on several issues like the Palestinian cause and his objection to military rule in Egypt. His statements have not made him popular in Western quarters.

President Erdoğan has clashed openly with Israel not because he detests Jews or he is an opponent of Israel but because he feels someone and some country should strongly oppose the injustices and oppression the Palestinian people have been subjected to and that he himself and Turkey is in the best position to do this.

President Erdoğan detests military rule and military involvement in politics in a country and thus opposes the Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi regime in Egypt. He believes in democratically-elected governments and thus supports Mohammed Morsi. He vehemently opposes tyrants and lambasts Bashar Assad.

This is very strange for some Western leaders who seem to be acting on political interests rather than principles. Thus they turn their backs on Erdoğan.

President Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu have introduced a new foreign policy notion where countries are required to act on what is right or wrong and not on changing the wrongs and making them right simply to serve their short term policy interests.

So when prominent English daily The Guardian published a commentary titled "Europe needs Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - but he will play hard-to-get" says "Facing an unprecedented migrant influx, a rising threat from Islamic State [Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, ISIS] terrorists, and unchecked Russian military intervention in Syria, Europe needs Erdoğan like never before."

The Guardian says Erdoğan, who will be meeting European leaders in Brussels, will have the upper hand when he faces them. The paper calls Erdoğan "Turkey's combative president," who "has been viewed almost as a pariah figure in recent years by European politicians worried about his perceived authoritarian tendencies, regressive brand of neo-Islamist politics and refusals to play to Washington's and NATO's tune."

Western leaders are wrong. Erdoğan is not a man who plays hard-to-get. He is not a dictator or a man who is trying to revive a religious state in Turkey. He will not play to the tune of Washington or NATO if what is required from him is unjust, oppressive and unrighteous.

Erdoğan is strong because he can face the leaders of the West as the leader of a proud country who has been housing 2.2 million Syrians spending $6.7 billion dollars on them for three years while the West has done nothing. Erdoğan can call out their incompetence in dealing with the situation Assad created in Syria, which has created the current mess in our part of the world. Can anyone say he is wrong?

European leaders will face a man who has been right all along and not an opportunist. That is his strong point.