The decision by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu to step down from his post created sorrow in Washington and in the European capitals as the American magazine Foreign Policy summed up U.S. sentiments by declaring "America loses its man in Ankara." The magazine quoted current and former U.S. State Department spokespersons saying Davutoğlu's "close working relationship with U.S. diplomats would be missed."

Similar sentiments have been aired in the capitals of various European Union member states.

There has been a perception created by people close to Davutoğlu that he is "the man of the West" who supports democracy and freedoms while Erdoğan does not. People around Davutoğlu have portrayed Erdoğan as a loose cannon. They do not understand that Erdoğan is so popular because he airs the sentiments of the Turkish masses and speaks of human values.

The people around Davutoğlu created all these false perceptions that have cost Davutoğlu his office.

In essence the Western diplomats are lamenting that life with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will be tough as they will not be able to manipulate him as they wish.

Erdoğan does not speak the lines of a Latin American or Middle Eastern loose cannon. He speaks about facts that are too ugly for the conscience of Western leaders and thus they try to disregard him and brand him as the odd man out.

On Sunday speaking at a function, Erdoğan simply said while people are dying in one corner of the world people in another part can simply remain indifferent to the carnage. He said while people die of hunger, obesity has surfaced in the West. Those who feel shame because of this of course turn against Erdoğan.

Erdoğan said while Turkey opened its gates to 3 million oppressed Syrians and has been hosting them for nearly four years "those who played the three monkeys" shut their doors to the migrants when these people turned up at their borders. Erdoğan said while Turkey hosts 3 million migrants from Syria, the West could not even tolerate 300,000 Syrian migrants and labelled this as an act of ruthlessness. Can European leaders live with this shame? Of course they will not hold someone who tells them this bitter truth in high esteem.

Erdoğan also lamented that the reactions in the West to a bomb attack in the heart of Ankara by the PKK at a bus stop that killed dozens of people did not match the reactions that followed the DAESH attacks in France. He said this is an act of injustice and there is lack of compassion on the parts of the West. Isn't all this true? Why doesn't the BBC and CNN International mention these facts? Or why doesn't the Washington Post or the New York Times raise these justified complaints?

Erdoğan speaks of human values, promotes them and fights for them. He does this because he has been educated with the traditional Turkish values and the teachings of Islam. Thus he is the arch enemy of extremist religious radicals like DAESH and al-Qaida.

So it is true that Erdoğan will never be called by Americans "as our man in Ankara." He will never be considered as easy prey by European leaders who got so much out of Davutoğlu in this migrant deal by pretending to give away so much but in fact giving away nothing.

The West has to learn to live with Erdoğan and listen to him more carefully because all that the Turkish president is trying to do is to make this world a better place to live in for all human beings and not only for those living in the West. If we fail to do this tomorrow the oppressed, those who have been exploited will flood your Western homes and you will be faced with an overwhelming crisis.