Wat wil Erdogan?

Geen categorie28 jun 2014, 10:00
Neo-Ottomanisme.
Een zeer interessante column van Caroline Glick over de doelen van Recep Tayyip Erdogan, de premier van Turkije. Ik ben het niet 100% met alles eens, maar ze heeft wel degelijk een punt.

Like Iran’s mullahs, Erdogan and his colleagues also reject the nation-state system. In their case, they wish to replace it with a restored Ottoman Empire. Spelling out his goal in a speech in the spring of 2012, Erdogan described Turkey’s mission thus: “On the historic march of our holy nation, the AK Party signals the birth of a global power and the mission for a new world order. This is the centenary of our exit from the Middle East [following the Ottoman defeat in World War I]. Whatever we lost between 1911 and 1923, whatever lands we withdrew from, from 2011 to 2023 we shall once again meet our brothers in those lands.” To achieve this goal, like Iran, Turkey seeks to destabilize states and reduce peoples to their ethnic, sub-national identities. The notion is that by dividing societies into their component parts, the various groups will all be weaker than one unified state, and all of them will feel threatened by one another and in need of outside support.

Erdogan hoopt dat, daar ben ik zeker van, niet te bereiken door hele delen van het Midden-Oosten te bezetten, maar door Turkijes invloed gewoon te vergroten. Zie hoe Iran omgaat met de sjiitische regering in Irak. 
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