TURKEYS DREAM IS ISLAMIC REGIMES UNDER TURKEYS LEADERSHIP Turkeys New Government: Old Wine in a New Bottle by Burak Bekdil Davutoglu is a dreamer of a future that will blend neo-Ottomanism with pan-Islamism. Despite outstanding failures in a span of five years, he still -- perhaps childishly -- believes that the overthrown dictatorships in the formerly Ottoman Muslim lands will one day be replaced with Islamic regimes, thus creating a regional Muslim Brotherhood belt under Turkeys leadership. When his ideals fail, Davutoglu does two things: he asserts that they failed not because his vision was wrong but because the world order is wrong, and must be corrected; and he tends to find euphemisms. After the IS took 49 Turks hostage, Davutoglus deputy minister said that they were not actually being kept hostage, but were merely interned. How nice! Perhaps the Turkish consulate personnel are now playing backgammon with ISs backgammon heavyweights. Meanwhile, the standard Turkish official attribution to the IS is that it is an organization, with careful abstinence of the word terrorist. Do the Turks think that the Islamic State is a charity organization? Burak Bekdil, based in Ankara, is a Turkish columnist for the Hürriyet Daily News and a Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:47:32 +0000
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