Turkey has been attempting for a few years to play an even bigger function than its boy, and Erdogan doesn’t disguise it, typically invoking its “blue homeland” and typically the “borders of his coronary heart”.
By Manolis Kalatzis
On a diplomatic degree, this has not labored out for her as she has did not persuade that she is the nation that may shield the Palestinians but in addition the one that may play a number one function in main worldwide occasions by mediating between wars. The reason being easy. Erdogan and by extension the nation led by the epitome of unreliability and political charlatanism.
A member of NATO, a beggar on the door of the EU for many years, a “lion” who turns into a kitten towards the USA and an interlocutor of dictators, of an identical high quality to the person who believed himself to be the reincarnation of Muhammad the Conqueror.
Erdogan's narrative is monotonously the identical. “Turkey is greater than Turkey and the geography of our coronary heart reaches far past Turkey and that this isn’t a selection, however a historic mission.”
He goals of a revival of the Ottoman Empire, having erased from his reminiscence the interval when it was the “nice affected person”. His expansionist moods don’t frighten, however they’re positive to infuriate, and so long as this occurs, he will likely be remoted and handled with warning even by nations that took Turkey's dimension and affect significantly.
The adventures in Syria won’t be straightforward to be understood by Russia, which has assumed the function of Assad's protector, in addition to the assaults towards the Kurdish component that has the help of the USA.
Neither Russia cherished the Syrians, nor the US of the Kurds, however Turkey is changing into an impediment to their strategic plans within the area and this can not go unnoticed. due to Hamas.
In such a state of affairs, Erdoğan invoking the “geography of his coronary heart” is enjoying with hearth.
Amidst this fireplace and with a Turkey of this mentality, hoping for constructive developments within the Cyprus challenge could also be utopia, but it surely can’t be dominated out that additionally it is a possibility.
