What Game is Erdogan playing?
Claudio RestaDecember 1, 2024
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For a while since the beginning of Ukraine war it seemed that the current President of Turkey Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan was a third party and independent between the two parties at war with respect to this conflict.
It seemed in facts that Turkey could be an ideal candidate as a place for a possible Ukraine war peace negotiations.
Then with the supply of Turkish drones to Ukraine, from Baykar, a company owned by the family of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s younger son-in-law, Selcuk Bayraktar, has been supplying Bayraktar TB2 drones to Ukraine since 2018, this position seemed to have faded.
Going back in time to the attempted Coup plotted against Erdogan in 2016 the President had taken very clear and hard positions against the United States, which, in light of this, are presumed to have been the instigator of this attempted Coup.
We must give credit to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his attitude at the time of the Coup, his attitude against the United States, being also Turkey a member of NATO was very courageous.
Much more courageous than that used to belong to all the other European Statesmen since the foundation of the Atlantic Pact which had been always seemed rather submissive to it…
The Day of the Jackal: Amazon.it: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Fred Zinnemann, Edward Fox, Terence Alexander: Film e TV
As recently quoted also by Michael Shrimpton
Only except that of French President Charles de Gaulle who in 1966 withdrew France from NATO’s integrated military command structure.
Who, coincidentally, perhaps precisely because of this withdrawal, escaped various attacks thanks to the extraordinary efficiency of his security services, of which I recall the double one at the Petit-Clamart.
Invisible Paris: Tracking Charles de Gaulle in Petit Clamart
But what about the latest contemporary developments in Erdogan’s policy?
Yuliana Dlugaj @DlugajJuly - Twitter Profile | Sotwe
The journalist Yuliana Dlugaj offers us a particularly acute interpretation of this policy which seems to me to be absolutely valid.
According to her:
”Erdogan’s foreign policy began as a bold, rebellious, neo-Ottoman vision—an ambitious attempt to restore Turkey’s influence over former Ottoman territories.
However, this vision was eventually co-opted to serve Western interests in the region.
What proved intolerable to the West, however, was Erdogan’s growing hostility toward Israel, exemplified by incidents like the Mavi Marmara crisis.
The turning point came in 2016. On a fateful night, Erdogan found himself on the brink of elimination during the Coup attempt.
US rejects Turkish minister's claim it was behind 2016 coup attempt | Middle East Eye
Forced to plead with his people over FaceTime—appearing like a character pulled from a bad parody—he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by commandos at his resort in Marmaris.
That night, the old Erdogan died.
The message from the West was clear: opposition to Israel’s agenda was unacceptable.
Erdogan capitulated almost immediately.
Since then, his resistance has been reduced to little more than hollow rhetoric.
His behavior over the past 13 months underscores this transformation.
Despite fiery speeches, Turkey continued to supply oil to Israel without interruption, and Erdogan has worked to undermine Assad—one of Israel’s staunchest adversaries in the region.
Critics are right to point out that the United States and Israel benefit most from these developments.
Yet, their success would have been far harder to achieve without Turkey’s willing participation.
Turkey has become a hub for militant state-sponsored Islamism, with its influence stretching from Syria through Central Asia to China’s Xinjiang region.
It is Turkey that targets so-called “Turkish brother nations” with a toxic blend of radical Islamism, revisionist history, pan-Turkism, and victimhood propaganda.
This strategy not only extends Turkey’s influence but also radicalizes individuals, turning them into tools for Western geopolitical objectives.
The infamous Crocus terrorist attack in Moscow, for instance, was traced back to Turkish training camps.
Crocus City Hall attack - Wikipedia
Meanwhile, the jihadis left festering in Idlib have been unleashed once more, spreading chaos across Syria as they did a decade ago.
This chaos is not incidental—it is cultivated, supported, and funded by the Turkish state.
Under Erdogan, Turkey has become the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, a willing accomplice in advancing the U.S. Empire’s objectives in the region.
The rest of Erdogan’s posture is mere theater—smoke and mirrors designed to deceive only those still willing to believe in a dream that has long since died.
From Moscow to Beijing, it’s time to face this reality.”
Claudio Resta was born in Genoa, Italy in 1958, he is a citizen of the world (Spinoza), a maverick philosopher, and an interdisciplinary expert, oh, and an artist, too.
Grew up in a family of scientists where many sciences were represented by philosophy to psychoanalysis, from economics to history, from mathematics to physics, and where these sciences were subject to public display by their subject experts family members, and all those who they were part of could participate in a public family dialogue/debate on these subjects if they so wished. Read Full Bio
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For a while since the beginning of Ukraine war it seemed that the current President of Turkey Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan was a third party and independent between the two parties at war with respect to this conflict.
It seemed in facts that Turkey could be an ideal candidate as a place for a possible Ukraine war peace negotiations.
Then with the supply of Turkish drones to Ukraine, from Baykar, a company owned by the family of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s younger son-in-law, Selcuk Bayraktar, has been supplying Bayraktar TB2 drones to Ukraine since 2018, this position seemed to have faded.
Going back in time to the attempted Coup plotted against Erdogan in 2016 the President had taken very clear and hard positions against the United States, which, in light of this, are presumed to have been the instigator of this attempted Coup.
We must give credit to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his attitude at the time of the Coup, his attitude against the United States, being also Turkey a member of NATO was very courageous.
Much more courageous than that used to belong to all the other European Statesmen since the foundation of the Atlantic Pact which had been always seemed rather submissive to it…
The Day of the Jackal: Amazon.it: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Fred Zinnemann, Edward Fox, Terence Alexander: Film e TV
As recently quoted also by Michael Shrimpton
Only except that of French President Charles de Gaulle who in 1966 withdrew France from NATO’s integrated military command structure.
Who, coincidentally, perhaps precisely because of this withdrawal, escaped various attacks thanks to the extraordinary efficiency of his security services, of which I recall the double one at the Petit-Clamart.
Invisible Paris: Tracking Charles de Gaulle in Petit Clamart
But what about the latest contemporary developments in Erdogan’s policy?
Yuliana Dlugaj @DlugajJuly - Twitter Profile | Sotwe
The journalist Yuliana Dlugaj offers us a particularly acute interpretation of this policy which seems to me to be absolutely valid.
According to her:
”Erdogan’s foreign policy began as a bold, rebellious, neo-Ottoman vision—an ambitious attempt to restore Turkey’s influence over former Ottoman territories.
However, this vision was eventually co-opted to serve Western interests in the region.
What proved intolerable to the West, however, was Erdogan’s growing hostility toward Israel, exemplified by incidents like the Mavi Marmara crisis.
The turning point came in 2016. On a fateful night, Erdogan found himself on the brink of elimination during the Coup attempt.
US rejects Turkish minister's claim it was behind 2016 coup attempt | Middle East Eye
Forced to plead with his people over FaceTime—appearing like a character pulled from a bad parody—he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by commandos at his resort in Marmaris.
That night, the old Erdogan died.
The message from the West was clear: opposition to Israel’s agenda was unacceptable.
Erdogan capitulated almost immediately.
Since then, his resistance has been reduced to little more than hollow rhetoric.
His behavior over the past 13 months underscores this transformation.
Despite fiery speeches, Turkey continued to supply oil to Israel without interruption, and Erdogan has worked to undermine Assad—one of Israel’s staunchest adversaries in the region.
Critics are right to point out that the United States and Israel benefit most from these developments.
Yet, their success would have been far harder to achieve without Turkey’s willing participation.
Turkey has become a hub for militant state-sponsored Islamism, with its influence stretching from Syria through Central Asia to China’s Xinjiang region.
It is Turkey that targets so-called “Turkish brother nations” with a toxic blend of radical Islamism, revisionist history, pan-Turkism, and victimhood propaganda.
This strategy not only extends Turkey’s influence but also radicalizes individuals, turning them into tools for Western geopolitical objectives.
The infamous Crocus terrorist attack in Moscow, for instance, was traced back to Turkish training camps.
Crocus City Hall attack - Wikipedia
Meanwhile, the jihadis left festering in Idlib have been unleashed once more, spreading chaos across Syria as they did a decade ago.
This chaos is not incidental—it is cultivated, supported, and funded by the Turkish state.
Under Erdogan, Turkey has become the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, a willing accomplice in advancing the U.S. Empire’s objectives in the region.
The rest of Erdogan’s posture is mere theater—smoke and mirrors designed to deceive only those still willing to believe in a dream that has long since died.
From Moscow to Beijing, it’s time to face this reality.”
Claudio Resta was born in Genoa, Italy in 1958, he is a citizen of the world (Spinoza), a maverick philosopher, and an interdisciplinary expert, oh, and an artist, too.
Grew up in a family of scientists where many sciences were represented by philosophy to psychoanalysis, from economics to history, from mathematics to physics, and where these sciences were subject to public display by their subject experts family members, and all those who they were part of could participate in a public family dialogue/debate on these subjects if they so wished. Read Full Bio
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$280+ BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation
150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts
Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State.
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What Game is Erdogan playing?
Claudio RestaDecember 1, 2024
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For a while since the beginning of Ukraine war it seemed that the current President of Turkey Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan was a third party and independent between the two parties at war with respect to this conflict.
It seemed in facts that Turkey could be an ideal candidate as a place for a possible Ukraine war peace negotiations.
Then with the supply of Turkish drones to Ukraine, from Baykar, a company owned by the family of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s younger son-in-law, Selcuk Bayraktar, has been supplying Bayraktar TB2 drones to Ukraine since 2018, this position seemed to have faded.
Going back in time to the attempted Coup plotted against Erdogan in 2016 the President had taken very clear and hard positions against the United States, which, in light of this, are presumed to have been the instigator of this attempted Coup.
We must give credit to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his attitude at the time of the Coup, his attitude against the United States, being also Turkey a member of NATO was very courageous.
Much more courageous than that used to belong to all the other European Statesmen since the foundation of the Atlantic Pact which had been always seemed rather submissive to it…
The Day of the Jackal: Amazon.it: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Fred Zinnemann, Edward Fox, Terence Alexander: Film e TV
As recently quoted also by Michael Shrimpton
Only except that of French President Charles de Gaulle who in 1966 withdrew France from NATO’s integrated military command structure.
Who, coincidentally, perhaps precisely because of this withdrawal, escaped various attacks thanks to the extraordinary efficiency of his security services, of which I recall the double one at the Petit-Clamart.
Invisible Paris: Tracking Charles de Gaulle in Petit Clamart
But what about the latest contemporary developments in Erdogan’s policy?
Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇷🇰🇵 @DlugajJuly - Twitter Profile | Sotwe
The journalist Yuliana Dlugaj offers us a particularly acute interpretation of this policy which seems to me to be absolutely valid.
According to her:
”Erdogan’s foreign policy began as a bold, rebellious, neo-Ottoman vision—an ambitious attempt to restore Turkey’s influence over former Ottoman territories.
However, this vision was eventually co-opted to serve Western interests in the region.
What proved intolerable to the West, however, was Erdogan’s growing hostility toward Israel, exemplified by incidents like the Mavi Marmara crisis.
The turning point came in 2016. On a fateful night, Erdogan found himself on the brink of elimination during the Coup attempt.
US rejects Turkish minister's claim it was behind 2016 coup attempt | Middle East Eye
Forced to plead with his people over FaceTime—appearing like a character pulled from a bad parody—he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by commandos at his resort in Marmaris.
That night, the old Erdogan died.
The message from the West was clear: opposition to Israel’s agenda was unacceptable.
Erdogan capitulated almost immediately.
Since then, his resistance has been reduced to little more than hollow rhetoric.
His behavior over the past 13 months underscores this transformation.
Despite fiery speeches, Turkey continued to supply oil to Israel without interruption, and Erdogan has worked to undermine Assad—one of Israel’s staunchest adversaries in the region.
Critics are right to point out that the United States and Israel benefit most from these developments.
Yet, their success would have been far harder to achieve without Turkey’s willing participation.
Turkey has become a hub for militant state-sponsored Islamism, with its influence stretching from Syria through Central Asia to China’s Xinjiang region.
It is Turkey that targets so-called “Turkish brother nations” with a toxic blend of radical Islamism, revisionist history, pan-Turkism, and victimhood propaganda.
This strategy not only extends Turkey’s influence but also radicalizes individuals, turning them into tools for Western geopolitical objectives.
The infamous Crocus terrorist attack in Moscow, for instance, was traced back to Turkish training camps.
Crocus City Hall attack - Wikipedia
Meanwhile, the jihadis left festering in Idlib have been unleashed once more, spreading chaos across Syria as they did a decade ago.
This chaos is not incidental—it is cultivated, supported, and funded by the Turkish state.
Under Erdogan, Turkey has become the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, a willing accomplice in advancing the U.S. Empire’s objectives in the region.
The rest of Erdogan’s posture is mere theater—smoke and mirrors designed to deceive only those still willing to believe in a dream that has long since died.
From Moscow to Beijing, it’s time to face this reality.”
Claudio Resta was born in Genoa, Italy in 1958, he is a citizen of the world (Spinoza), a maverick philosopher, and an interdisciplinary expert, oh, and an artist, too.
Grew up in a family of scientists where many sciences were represented by philosophy to psychoanalysis, from economics to history, from mathematics to physics, and where these sciences were subject to public display by their subject experts family members, and all those who they were part of could participate in a public family dialogue/debate on these subjects if they so wished. Read Full Bio
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150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts
Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State.
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