Turkey Creates its Version of NATO? — Vladimir Odintsov

Is the Ottoman Empire rising from its ashes as Erdogan makes a play for leadership of the Sunni Caliphate? Did Russia miss this?

And this “pandemic” trend was picked up by the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who embarked on a course towards an intensified collapse of the CSTO (which, it should be recalled, in addition to Russia and Armenia, includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) and to build a “Turkic NATO” with a single “Army of Turan” on its ruins. Among the members of such an alliance he sees Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, unrecognized by the world community, all of them under the direct military-political leadership of Turkey.

Such thoughts began to be especially actively promoted by Erdogan against the background of the military escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh, during which Ankara provides unequivocal support to Baku. Turkey is trying to demonstrate to Russia’s allies that Armenia is retreating before the union of Azerbaijan and Turkey, while Ankara “does not surrender its allies and is leading them to victory.”

The reason for Erdogan’s use of precisely “military patterns” in his frank neo-Ottoman aspirations is understandable, since the military has always had a dominant position in Turkish society and in the implementation of Ottoman ideas....

Speaking about the modern policy of Turkey, today the terms “neo-Ottomanism” and “Pan-Turkism” are increasingly used. These are the cornerstones of the foundation of the foreign policy course taken the leader of the Turkish state, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

However, the irony of modern neo-Ottomanism lies in the fact that the very idea of ​​consolidating the peoples of the Turkic world, which primarily opposes Iran, under the slogan of the Great Turan, is an integral part of the ideology of the “Young Turks” who had already led the Ottoman Empire to its fall. 

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Turkey Creates its Version of NATO?

Vladimir Odintsov