Erdogan wants to decide the fate of 5 Arab countries, and the rest is at the expense

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After taking power in late November 2002, then Turkish Prime Minister Abdullah Gul made his first foreign visit to Damascus on January 4, 2003, as part of his regional tour to prevent US aggression in Iraq. where he visited Cairo, Riyadh and Amman.

This round was the beginning of the AKP’s open policies towards the Arab and Islamic world, although Erdogan, who became prime minister on March 14, 2003, declared his support for the American war, contrary to Parliament’s decision on March 1, which did not allow troops The US government is using Turkish lands and airspace, which Erdogan opened a day after the US aggression began.

Erdogan’s position has not prevented Ankara from continuing the policies of openness to Iran and the Arab countries that have become friends with Turkey, which has developed positive relations with all countries without interfering in its affairs, but rather helps it to to end the differences between them, including his efforts to achieve Syrian-Israeli reconciliation. .

The so-called Arab Spring came to encourage President Erdogan to think new in relations with Arab countries on an ideological basis, which prompted him to support this spring through his successive visits to Egypt, Tunisia and Libya for the period between on 13 and 16 September 2011, in a clear message from him to these Islamists. Countries, and told them: “Turkey is with you”.

This with the green light, if not with the American and Western blessing, aimed at the realization of the so-called project of the Greater Middle East. And Erdogan was, and by his own admission, one of the main pillars of this project, with the West talking about commercializing the Turkish secular Islamic model to the countries of the region and their Islamic parties and forces, thus the regimes of Tunisia fell, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, with the support of the West and the Gulf regimes which responded to the revolution of the Bahraini people, but cooperated with Turkey. To overthrow the regime in Syria, Iran confronted it and thwarted its plans, with the support of Hezbollah and later Russia.

Whatever subsequent developments were in which Turkey played a pivotal and pivotal role, the Arab Spring helped President Erdogan carry out many of his projects and plans in the region, which he wanted to return to the Ottoman Turkish embrace under the banner of the Caliphate. and the Sultanate, encouraged by the Islamists of the region, and indeed by the Islamists of all over the world, as long as Erdogan spoke, and still is, of the creed of the Brotherhood which unites them all in politics, jihad and arms, which are the three elements on which he relied in all of his regional policies, sometimes with sectarianism, other times with Turkish nationalism, as Erdogan spoke of the Turkmen of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. And the descendants of the Ottomans in Libya, and also in Somalia, considering this an important reason for his interests, if not mentioning his interventions in the aforementioned countries.

Through these three elements, Erdogan has become an important party in the overall developments of Iraq, Syria, Libya and Somalia (and Sudan before the fall of Al-Bashir), although we ignore his strategic relationship with the Qatari emir Tamim, who had high hopes for his relationship with Erdogan, despite the two major American bases in his country, who embraced Turkish soldiers who went to Doha to protect the Al Thani family from any Egypt-backed Saudi and Emirati aggression against Qatar in summer of 2017.

President Erdogan, together with Prince Tamim, addressed the three countries, this time on Libyan soil, and supported the Sarraj government, which is supported by the various Islamic factions fighting Haftar’s forces, which are assisted by the aforementioned countries, which they are Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

Erdogan did not overlook the speeches of a million of those of Ottoman Turkish descent, and said of them: “They have been in Libya since the days of the Ottoman rule of Libya 450 years ago, and Ottoman history says that some of them are Jews.” This means that Ankara will not and will not abandon Libya, which has become clear that Erdogan will be the protagonist in determining its fate, as he will be a major player in determining the fate of Somalia following the extensive and effective Turkish penetration into it, and in all areas, the most important of which are political, military and security. This is the case of Erdogan in Iraq, where the Turkmen minority and a number of Sunni tribes, forces and factions that Ankara has established extensive relations with it, to help support the Turkish military presence in many areas of northern Iraq, and the Turkish army has been present since the early nineties, under the pretext of pursuing the PKK militants.

Erdogan has not neglected his relations with Masoud Barzani, his important ally in northern Iraq against Kurdish workers and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan led by the late president Jalal Talabani.

This means that Erdogan will be an important part in the process of determining the fate of Iraq before or after the American withdrawal, and it appears that it will not be achieved until President Trump makes his decision on the Eastern Euphrates, which concerns Erdogan. more than anything else, it has become clear that the Kurdish People’s Protection Units AND his military presence in the region has prompted and will prompt President Erdogan to come up with many plans to address his potential risk of US forces staying or leaving the region. .

Ankara does not neglect the possibility of reconciliation between these units and Damascus, which Turkish officials fear that the latter will use the armed units of these units, which are about 50 thousand who possess all the advanced American weapons, against the Turkish military and political presence in the north of Syria, from Idlib to Ras al-Ain, along 700 km of The Syrian border with Turkey.

The alliance between Ankara and tens of thousands of Islamic militants in Syria, with their various factions, is acquiring strategic importance for President Erdogan, who wants these factions to help him carry out his plans and projects for Syria. and perhaps Iraq, and through them in the Arab region in general, to remain a major player in it for the time being. No one is allowed to decide his fate without taking into account Turkish political, economic and commercial calculations and, above all, historical and ideological ones.

And it has become clear that President Erdogan does not and will not abandon these accounts as long as he believes that, before any other party, the first is to decide the fate of those countries, namely Syria, Iraq, Libya, Qatar and Somalia, and through their other countries, such as Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Mauritania and Yemen, where the Turkish moves are in those countries where Islamic forces are in solidarity with Erdogan.

It appears clear that he is benefiting from the situation that the aforementioned countries do not envy, and he is the only beneficiary of this situation in the absence of a national will to deal with internal problems, and therefore the national will that the Arab Spring managed to destroy, after fractured for many reasons, the most important of which is the Gulf regime, particularly Saudi Arabia. The House of Saud was, and still is, the main cause of the region’s destruction, after it became a strategic ally of America after King Abdulaziz met President Roosevelt on June 14, 1945.

After that date, Riyadh used all its financial, religious and sectarian capacities to serve the American project, which in turn is in the interest of the Zionist project. Many in the region were serving him directly or indirectly and still use Iran as an excuse. And everyone knows that if it weren’t for the latter, “Israel” would have decided the fate of the entire region, not only from the Nile to the Euphrates, but also from the ocean to the Gulf.

The biggest, and perhaps the last, bet remains on the historical and ideological challenge between the Turkish President Erdogan, who is negotiating with the Brotherhood charter, and the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is facing them, and with him the Saud family, hostile to Erdogan, grandson of Sultan Selim, who entered Cairo on January 22, 1517, to return to Cairo. Including the caliph of the Muslims.

In their name, Muhammad bin Saud rebelled against the Ottoman Empire starting in 1790, and Ibrahim Pasha, son of Muhammad Ali Pasha, the ruler of Egypt, killed him, in which Ahmed al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood movement five years after the establishment of the secular Ataturk Republic, which Erdogan seems to want to get rid of.

It is indeed a wonderful equation with all its data, all at the expense of Arab geography, and it has been in this condition for hundreds of years, except for a few years of struggle, steadfastness and dignity in some of its countries, whose peoples have suffered, and still am, much due to these noble qualities!