Turkey has so many benefits that Iran, or any other regional adversary wishes they had. But our government is useless.
Even without the benefit of being in the OTS and NATO, we're a powerhouse on our own.
We're a secular, militaristic ethno-state with the best military in the region, sitting on the most strategic land in the world. Most Arabs and Iranians despise us because of this, the same way that Armenians, Greeks and Kurds do. They hate the idea of a more secular government coming into power, especially one which would fix the refugee problem. Why? Because their biggest fear is an ethically homogenous Türkiye that is also modern and respected by the wider world. In other words, our regional enemies want us to become another middle eastern sh*thole.
We were stupid enough to back a bunch of uncoordinated Islamists in Syria. Take in millions of Syrians, many of whom were terrorists. Meanwhile the entire west supported PKK, made them look like angels whilst making us look like we supported ISIS.
How stupid could we have been to fall for this? Were we really stupid, or were we just full of traitors? And are we still full of traitors?
We need to ask ourselves why we always lose at the table despite all the advantages we have.
In general i know lots of people from the MENA region, from Morocco to Iraq, Iran. I always got this underlying impression that these people were kind of envious that we were not at the same level as them. You would get negative quips about being "secular" or they would talk negatively of Ataturk.
I pushed my fair share of "islamism" on this forum, as a Muslim i see a wider Muslim civilisation and truth be told i see the Turks are the core component of it. But with next to no doubts i came to realise a long time ago that "political islamism" is just "cultural marxism" for Muslims. They believe that if they can destroy your national resolve, or ethnic character they will effectively destroy Islamic civilisation from ever challenging them(west, russia, isreal) in any meaningful manner. We see a similar game happening to Turks in Greece, they ban them from identifying as Turks, but push that they are "greek Muslims instead. The enemy understands and how Islam can be used to deceive and subdue the Turk.
I saw this come up in my feed and cut to the points where it talks about Turkiye, nationalism etc? Its a good example of the "islamist" failed mindset.
From what i understand this guy worked in Turkiye teaching Ottoman history. He hates the fact that Turks are nationalistic, everything bad about our history is associated to being a "Turk" everything good is "Islam". Even the host makes the point how Turks can look western European to Mongolian, so what have they got to be proud/nationalistic about. Playing his western style identity politics of skin colour being the basis for national character, history or culture. Also indirectly insulting the "Turk" identity.
He mentions how the influx of refugees has had an effect on the rise of nationalism in Turkiye, basically saying its bad that your reacting negatively to it. A similar thing happens here in england with pakistani/bangladeshi islamist types. Where they hate the english for getting annoyed about uncontrolled migrations into their country. Then they go round screaming "allahu akbar in their shalvar type clothes playing into their hands". Anyway he turns the narrative back round that the Ottomans were great because they accepted endless hordes of refugees. Implying that Turks are bad because the entire MENA east has rights to country.
Muslims on the one hand want to bask in our historical glory, the great empires, the conquests the wars. But at the same time they want to shit on our Turkish identity. Despite being Muslim, im actually sick of Islamists to a point where i think the grand majority of them are absolute shitheads, fools or worse yet western agents.
I advise all Muslims to beware that this political islamist agenda for the most part is really just socialism/communism against Islamic civilisation. Its a western trojan horse.
From a foreign policy perspective this constant attack on Turkish identity undercuts Turkiyes ability to help the region. It works to delegitimise us in a world where Muslims have no issues supporting the Russians, the Chinese, two hardcore nationalistic states that both have devastated their Muslim minorities.
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