In late August turkish President Erdogan celebrated the Islamic New Year with aplomb. Fresh from his conversion of the monumental Hagia Sophia mosque is another former Byzantine church converted in Chora Church, one of the oldest Byzantine structures in Istanbul of the fourth century. The day after I had given the largest natural gas deposit ever known in the Black Sea. This was preceded by another new discovery of natural gas deposits in the eastern Mediterranean. Both areas are highly competitive areas of international competition between the powers of these seas. Later that week welcomed a Hamas delegation to Ankara, where he led the support for the Palestinians on the heels of the recent announcement of an agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates expressed. All these movements protruding force Erdogan’s Islamist vision of the world. Stand up for Islam at home is to ensure and enforce the power of Turkey abroad hand in hand with natural resources. It also goes hand in hand with internal repression. The new Islamic year has seen Erdogan continued his hold on the social freedom to attract media and consider Turkey gain from what is known today charade 2011 Istanbul Convention, an agreement on the euro European countries committed to protecting women from violence housekeeper. democratic peoples in Turkey, Middle East, and around the world should take care of. It ‘been a lot written about the attempts of the Sultan Erdogan to “resurrect” the Ottoman Empire or the same style. There is truth here. But to understand Erdogan’s political agenda and the horizon we need to be specific, you want to be the Ottoman Sultan Erdogan. And ‘the Empire ninth Sultan, Selim I. Selim died 500 years ago in 1520. It’ was during his lifetime that the Ottoman Empire as a strong regional power has grown to a huge global empire. For Erdogan, the half millennium Sultan serves its current needs. Selim acts in all ways Erdogan Andrew Jackson, a figure of the past, the symbolic use in the present. Selim has to become a political power and global economic a model for Turkey, with the influence from Washington to Beijing, crushing foreign and domestic challengers alike. It also helps to make his case for Erdogan Islam, who ruled as a cultural reservoir and power politics, an essential part of the Ottoman past glories, that he tries to emulate in modern Turkey against the ruling secular elite since since its inception has. Should we hug Erdogan exclusive vision of Selim the turkish political power to be careful. It provides an example of historical Strongman policy that regional wars led to the attempted destruction of religious minorities and the monopolization of the global economic resources. In addition, around monopolize its reserves of gas attempts to Turkey, today, this takes the form of Erdogan foreign military action in Libya, Syria and Yemen. At home, he went to Turkey Shi’ite community, Kurds, intellectuals, Christians, journalists, women and left. Erdogan maintains its Sunni Islam’s religious position in the center of Turkish domestic politics, with the Churches potentesten conversions the last symbols of this. Erdogan is a competition policy logic zero sum pitting Turkey against Saudi Arabia and Iran for control of the region and the demands of the global Islamic leadership. Selim Erdogan likes because it allows the Turkish political global power. From 1517 until the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire held the geographic shape Selim won for them, dominated the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. In 1517, the Ottomans moved their great rivals in the region defeated the Mamluk empire in Cairo, to capture its territory in the Middle East and North Africa. This is more than double the realm of greatness. This explosion of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East was the most important military and political power in the region and one of the largest countries in the world. The Ottomans now controlled the entire eastern half of the Mediterranean and thus dominates the majority of the most important trade routes in the world by land between Europe and Asia and by sea through the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. The Turkish Republic has inherited much of that power after the end of empire and the rise of the Republic in 1923. During each modern sovereign turkish aloof from the legacy of the Ottoman Empire and Islam, to project to try to “western” “secular” und, modern’Gesicht for the Republic is the first Erdogan, who has actively accepted the Ottoman past, and the reign of the Islamic heritage. Again, the key shows Selim Erdogan photos of his government. The defeat of Selim of Mamelukes, the Ottoman Empire did a Muslim-majority state, for the first time in its history, after more than two hundred years ago, a state of being in which the population was largely greek orthodox . With the victory, the first Ottoman Sultan Selim Mecca and Medina was to govern holy cities, thus earning the title of caliph and to cement the realm of global Islamic credentials. When Selim was the first Ottoman sultan to be both and caliph, Erdogan is to confess the first Republican leader to own both titles. As President Donald Trump targeted use of the symbols of Andrew Jackson prominently display his portraits in the Oval Office and defended his statues-Erdogan has publicly kidnapped and especially in politics Selim symbolic in Turkey. Its most striking fact, was to name the third newly built bridge over the Bosphorus to the famous Selim. Erdogan also has huge resources of serious Selim and other monuments has been poured on his government. a constitutional referendum in 2017 greatly spoiled his forces, a process enhanced by irregularities-Erdogan his first public appearance in Selim’s grave After winning. Staged as a kind of pilgrimage, he returned to the sovereign Erdogan dead by the time of his caftan and turban, which had been stolen years earlier. This much to gain by thin first act of a referendum, they have made it clear that Erdogan’s role model is his almost unlimited power. Erdogan and his Islamist party colleagues regularly describe as a “grandson” of the Ottomans. This very sharp genealogy, jump Erdogan targeting a generation that has prevailed since the Turkey Republican fathers in 1923 to leapfrog back in time when the Ottomans over the world with its special brand of politicians Sunni Turkish to day Selim when wars and repression internal led to wealth and territorial power. a political program to rebuild used to Selim is a dangerous prospect for Turkey and the Middle East and the world. Return the Ottoman Turkey requires the kind of violence, censorship and that Erdogan showed it ready for use vitriol. The universal lesson is that the calls for a return to the perceived size, if you embrace Turkey or the United States of America, selectively controversial historical figures, mangle their history, and the high hatred and division. copyright Picture of Pantry / turkish Presidential Press / Getty Images
Why romance with Erdogan Worry Ottoman Empire if the world
