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Iranian-Azari General Yahya Rahim Safavi
Iranian-Azari General Yahya Rahim Safavi accused Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar of serving US and Israeli interests in Syria aimed at weakening “the resistance axis comprising Iran, Syria and Hezbollah.” In commenting on Ankara’s position on the issue, the senior military adviser to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Turkey “a strategic competitor of Iran,” in the wake of weapons supplies to Syrian rebels by the West and Arab Monarchies, with Turkish help.
Ankara is still one of Washington’s closest allies, and by extension, an Israeli ally given the close ties between Washington and Tel Aviv. NATO member since 1952, Turkey served as a basing point for the 1991 War against Iraq, and is currently one of the most active countries in operations in Afghanistan.
Turkey was a major outpost against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Turkey is the only power whose imperial ambitions in Eurasia match those of the US, increasingly worried about the possible establishment of a continental alliance between Iran, Russia, China and other regional nations that are allergic to U.S. activity in the region.
At least thirty-five disparate Turkic languages are spoken across a vast area stretching from the Mediterranean to the Tien Shan.
The dream of uniting this composite and often divergent mosaic of peoples into a “common Turkic state” brought the birth of Pan-Turkism, at the end of the XIX century. Since then, the Pan-Turkist ideology has historically served the interests of all those powers interested in disintegrating Russia (first imperial and then Soviet). The collapse of the Soviet Union, with the consequent birth of newly independent Turkic countries, has given new life to dreams of Turkish imperialism.
Ankara’s Neo Pan-Turkism is divided over the scope and shape of its imagined new Turkish order. If creating an empire that includes areas of Iran, Russia and China is not a viable option, Turkey may attempt to use cultural influence to seek to destabilize those regions, and countries bordering them. Turkey is also seeking to strengthen its influence in the Caucasus and Central Asia at the expenses of Tehran, Moscow and Beijing.
Given Ankara’s membership to NATO, the Neo Pan-Turkism is not only the ideology of a new imperial Turkey, but also a weapon through which the US and Israel seek to secure control over energy resources and transportation routes from Central Asia and the Caspian Sea. Turkey has made its intentions clear. However, these types of social engineering programs bring with it the risk of a wider regional conflict, nuclear proliferation, and an all out regional war.
See also: ‘West uses Syria to hit China, Russia and Iran’