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The Grand Turk |
Sizing up the Turkish threat |
2018-01-04 |
[ARABNEWS] In his magnum opus "Strategic Depth," Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First![]() ’s top foreign policy adviser Ahmet Davutoglu predicted that one day popular uprisings would bring down authoritarian regimes in neighboring countries. He believed that a new "pan-Islamist" politicianship friendly to ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... ’s ruling Justice and Development Party would lead the masses in those countries. Davutoglu felt that Turkey should not remain confined to its current borders. He envisaged that a regional order led by Turkey would emerge on the back of these uprisings. From the vantage point of 2012, when Erdogan was still prime minister of Turkey and Davutoglu his foreign minister, this grand vision was nearly realized. In Tunisia and Egypt, the Moslem Brüderbund assumed power via the ballot box and began its efforts to transform state structures in accordance with its political agenda. In Libya and Syria, Islamist movements supported by Turkey dominated the battlefield. |
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