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| The Grand Turk |
| The Second Coming Of 'Great Turan' |
| 2020-11-11 |
| [MEMRI.ORG] He was a vain and pompous man obsessed with reviving ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's ancient glory. At first, he seemed a reformer and even progressive, and was seen sympathetically by some in the West. Over time he became more aggressive and blustering. He was anti-Armenian. Supposedly an enemy of Russia, he later collaborated with the Russians, receiving help from them. Both Islamic expansionism and pan-Turkism (sometimes called Turanism, although the two terms are not identical) were attractive to him. He had big dreams, of reviving the Ottoman Empire or even creating a new Turkic one, from the Balkans to Central Asia. This man was not Turkey's current President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First |
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