Well I do not believe that their leaders are without brains. Pragmatism is what’s necessary and RTE has let his emotions and stupid ppl screw things up majorly for Turkey. GC allowed into EU was the one of the biggest mistakes.
In chess you either have moves or you don’t. Waiting things out is not in our favor. While rest of the world screws up our neighborhood.
I'm convinced their leaders are generally of a low quality. I'm not on about morality or character, i'm simply on about statesmanship. The Europeans carved out these Arab states from the Ottomans and took Arab peasants living in tents and made them kings of what became European vassals.
Since then arabs haven't gone on to produce anything and are only known for losing wars or wasting easy money. When you think of the middle east or Arab lands in general the world just thinks constant killing and bloodshed mixed with a backward middle eastern mindset that cannot create or invent. Ironically before erdogan we were one of the few countries that proved to the world Islam can exist in the modern world, while our country improved the image of Muslims Arabs in general worked against the image of Islam.
Arabs have a dark future ahead of them, thats not an insult but just a reality.
The problem for the Turkish people is that we are not the same race, of the same character or even the same culture, but we do share a religion. And what happens is all the Arab failure and humiliation they bring onto the religion is also thrown against the Turks too. Our image has suffered greatly internationally because of Arab dictators and monarchies who go on to lose wars and get humilated. With Saddam and Ghaddafi being the most recent examples of Arab dictators/leaders paraded by the west and murdered by the west while being celebrated by the west.
Take the Palastininas issue where parents allow their kids to stand in open fire of the Israeli armour and tanks throwing stones, naturally the Israelis use it to gun down the Palestinians like they are worthless, then you get the screaming mothers asking where Allah is.
Allah gave us all a brain, if you don't use it, do not blame Allah for it.
To make matters worse instead of the Arabs supporting one of the few serious Muslim majority states in Turkey, they choose to bow their heads down to Europeans while working with them against the Turks, while the arabs can see the same europeans are using them and working against them too.
And like its been mentioned the Arab has no problem with Americans, Russians, French, English, Spanish occupying their lands, but the moment they hear the Turks are coming to restore dignity to Muslim lands they are all up in arms.
The Turkish position in LIbya restored dignity to the lands the GNA liberated. The Turkish position in lands she entered in Syria restored dignity to sunni Muslims. Turkish support for Azerbaijan allowed dignity to be restored for the Muslims there who no longer feel the victim against christians, but instead men of honour and integrity. The Turkish position in Somalia is bringing dignity back to those people who have seen their country over run with terrorists. Where ever Turkey goes she restores dignity to the people.