"Let them attack. Let them oppose. Let them try to destroy Turkey's future horizon. Let them continue to spread diseases through century-old imperial residues. Let them be more American, German, British, Israeli or more Russian than they are from Turkey. Let them act like they are "internal invaders" the economic field, political field and intellectual field.
Let them flirt with the global intelligence network and terror organizations to reach their objectives, to stop Turkey. Let them give prominence to minor issues and blur minds as though they are Turkey's most important problems. Let them treat Turkey as their enemy and swear at their country and people.
Why do we remember the Kut-ul Almara victory now?
History is not the toy of small people. It is the story of those who think big and give great struggles, those who have big dreams.
They are the losers. Even if they are very loud today, and they travel from capital to capital, they are the losers of history. Soon their voices will be lost. They have long lost their history-making power, characteristic and dynamics. With their thoughts left over from the Cold War, after today, they are no longer going to be able to play a role beyond that of an instrument. They will not be given more than this.
Today is the Kut-ul Amara victory's 100th anniversary. We will find ourselves, just the way we sought and found a victory that was wiped out of our memory 100 years later. Even this example alone is enough to show the great struggle given. This is what we are trying to do when wanting to normalize history, give prominence once again to the love of country and people, wanting to give a broad meaning to the term people, re-thinking Turkey again 100 years later, when discovering our friends with whom we will hold hands far beyond the borders of Anatolia.
Gaining victory in the toughest time
We are striving to spread this understanding, this perception. If Turkey's president mentions this victory for the first time a century later, if he is paying respect to those who gave us that history and taking pride in them, making a connection with them, then the chain has been completed and history has found its own course. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's statement aimed at “our ability to win victory even in the toughest times," is the expression of a deep reality. We come from a tradition that knows how to remain standing even at the toughest times of every stage of history, and help those around us to get back up on their feet too.
This is the history-maker characteristic, and Turkey has reclaimed this characteristic in the last 20 years after closing the 20th century bracket. We do not have the luxury to waste this responsibility, this great plan. We are not going to surrender to the delusions of a few irresponsible, incompetent people along with a few “internal invaders" who have been preparing for these days.
Defending the country against invasion, not terror
History will continue to flow in this direction despite attacks, setbacks and atrocities. We have been attacked consecutively for the last three years to end this great struggle. All the crises, all the efforts to defame are part of a multinational invasion and are aimed at stopping Turkey.
Those who have been activating their apparatuses on the inside will also bring forward their direct attack options when the time comes. This is a definite possibility. Because the matter is greater than we imagine – it is big enough to re-determine the regional power map. This is why you should not take lightly the reality that we are in a century-old showdown.
Turkey's “counterterrorism" operations are actually a country defense against this multinational and outside intervention. This is called war, not a fight against terror. They want to invade our cities through a terror organization.
Turkey the real target of geographical intervention
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) taking up arms again in the same period as the Arab Spring is an instruction in this direction. The organization was mobilized for the new map of the region. This is why the fight in the region is not against terror, but, similar to the War of Independence, it is against invasion.
The state mind, political mind, people's will taking action with such awareness after decades leads to a regional responsibility. Everybody who has unfurled a flag against this responsibility, every organization, every state, is in the same line and is fighting Turkey. The ability to respond to those imposing a map on us with our own map drafts is the greatest weapon of this struggle.
Just as a period of rise started after the Crusades, after the Mongolian invasion, and just as this period shaped the geography, such a period was going to start after World War I too, and it has started. Then the actual objective of the chaos spreading through our geography is this historical mission, it is Turkey. The third shock has lost effect, the strength to reverse that storm of chaos will be Turkey.
What business do Turkish soldiers have in Qatar?
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu was in Qatar yesterday. An agreement was made for a military base that was previously decided. What business do Turkish soldiers have in Qatar? Why are they in the Balkans, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Somalia, Iraq? What are we doing here? To defend Turkey, to fulfill our regional responsibilities, to get back on our feet and to avoid being identified as a garrison country in the power map of the 21st century.
I compare the present times to the last periods of the Abbasids, the periods when they became weak. It is as though we are experiencing the first stages of the impact of Muslim Turks who arrived in the region as a strong power in history. The Muslim Turks who came to help the Abbasids back then continued to serve Islam and keep the geography alive for hundreds of years, until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. After that collapse, we were all taken prisoner in our own countries and borders. We had all become front countries, garrison countries.
The US pushed Arabs in a corner
Today the geography is going through its own civil war. Regional wars are being planned through the sectarian crisis. The moment the Syrian crisis reaches a certain stage, the Persian Gulf is going to witness the biggest conflict of the region. The Arab world is aware that the West and the US no longer promise it a future. The law prepared by the US to declare Saudi Arabia responsible for September 11 is part of the first moves aimed at seizing the Gulf's hundreds of billions of dollars and throw these countries to Iran.
The agreement between Washington and Tehran has pushed Gulf countries into a corner. Turkey's establishing a base in Qatar, attempts aimed at becoming close again with the United Arab Emirates, cooperating with Saudi Arabia on many issues, is actually a quest for defense against common threats.
The infrastructure of the coldness between Turkey and Iran and the Turkey-Russia crisis have been prepared for this reason. A quest to find a common defense is increasingly gaining prominence. Perhaps these partnerships will also close the doors leading to the civil war that will destroy the region.
PKK will be withdrawn, Daesh will be pushed forward
The interventions that started with the Gezi Park incidents and intensified with the December 17, 2013 intervention were continued in the form of suicide attacks through the PKK. When one failed, a new scenario was put into play. Now the “bringing [Turkey] to its knees through terror" option also seems to have failed.
Pay particular attention to Daesh attacks. The role given to the PKK may soon be transferred to this organization. Attacks may start on Turkey through Daesh, through Syria. Now this will be an open declaration of war. Direct attacks will start from our southern borders. That is when we will see clearer that those carrying out the attacks are not those organizations, but our “allies." This is why they will soon declare PKK terror unsuccessful.
The base in Qatar will not be enough. Turkey needs to decide immediately to establish a presence in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Yemen and in every region of Syria. If there are preparations for a regional war, then preparations for a regional defense must also be expedited."
Turkey should establish a military base in Saudi Arabia too
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Photo: Turkish Special Forces 'Maroon Berets' in Thunder of the North exercises of Saudi Arabia.
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It isn't like I agree with him but I do think Turkey should establish a base in KSA, too.
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