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Turkish Lira crumbles. Erdogan deals with, then provokes Russia
The Duran: Episode 1149
Neo-Ottoman dreams: Erdogan, Bahceli display map of ‘Turkish world’ with Thrace, Cyprus
Neo-Ottoman dreams: Erdogan, Bahceli display map of ‘Turkish world’ with Thrace, Cyprus – ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ
The map, which depicts Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman ideations and foreign interventions presents as “Turkish territories” a long list of countries from the Balkans and Central Asia and Russia all the way to China with its Muslim Uyghur minority.
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You miss one extremely important point about turkey: if it were for the turkish people actually living in turkey, erdogan would have been ousted a long time ago. However, there are millions of turks living in western europe, mainly – of course – germany, and these people are firstly voting in the turkish electiins and secondly – and as crazy as it may sound – are much more nationalist than the turks living in turkey. There actually is a feeling – and much anger – in turkey about being held hostage by these people who support erdogan and his muslim-… Read more »
You have a point, and I suspect that it’s islamophobia that the Turkish expats experience in Germany which causes them to cling to and re-elect Erdogan, who is an Islamist. If it weren’t for that, Erdogan’s days in turkey may be numbered. On the other hand, the July 2016 CIA coup against Erdogan actually strengthened Erdogan even among Kemalist Turks. It’s a very volatile situation, and I see it as more complex than just the support of Turkish expats in Germany, although that is probably the strongest support Erdogan has, next to that he enjoys in the Anatolian hinterlands in… Read more »
I think Erdogan has had a dose of that covid and it’s addled his brain, Putin is the only friend he has and now risks loosing that one.
Putin is not exactly a friend. They are tolerating each other because they need each other, and nothing will change in that co-dependency.