David Lepeska here provides an excellent summary piece of Turkey’s movement away from secularism and back to Islam. And while it is certainly true that “the threat that is coming out of Turkey is similar in many ways to the threat that was coming out of Iran after the revolution,” Turkey’s transition into an Islamic state has been more gradual than the Khomeini revolution. It is that gradualism that has allowed the Turkish Islamic revolution to go on in plain sight of the world while most mainstream analysts have failed to notice.
“Turkey exporting undeclared Islamic revolution,” by David Lepeska, Ahval News, August 30, 2020:
…Ghanem Nuseibeh, founding director of London-based consulting firm Cornerstone Global Associates…said the Israel-UAE agreement consolidates the division that has come to define much of the Middle East, between the Turkey-Qatar alliance on one side, which supports Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Saudi-Emirati-Egyptian-led bloc on the other, which has labelled the Brotherhood a terrorist group.
“The direction of travel we are seeing out of Turkey is moving away from normalisation and peacefulness and good relations with Israel and being open with the West,” he told Ahval in a podcast. “The direction of travel coming from moderate Arab states led by the UAE is in the opposite direction towards more peaceful coexistence.”
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), in power since 2002, has historical links to the Brotherhood and welcomed many Muslim Brotherhood members following Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s ouster of his predecessor Mohamed Morsi in mid-2013. Since then, Turkey has essentially swapped one group of Islamists, the followers of exiled Turkish preacher Fethullah Gülen , who Ankara blames for orchestrating a failed 2016 coup, for another, those of the Brotherhood and its proxies.
Turkey supports Brotherhood-linked groups in Libya, in Syria, in Niger and the Palestinian territories, as well as in Europe. In a recent op-ed for the Jerusalem Post, Nuseibeh argued that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had learned from the widespread backlash to Iran’s 1979 revolution to gradually remake Turkey into an Islamic Republic rather than do so overnight….
“The threat that is coming out of Turkey is similar in many ways to the threat that was coming out of Iran after the revolution,” said Nuseibeh. “The Islamists have been gradually taking over bits and pieces of the Turkish state and are now really controlling Turkish foreign policy…Turkey seems to want to export its own undeclared revolution.”…
RichardL says
he is indeed good at the international stealth jihad and has played every card (rapefugees, fake coup, NATO membership, EU talks) perfectly. The problem is that he has played them all and he is left with only rubbish in his hand. He will go down but he will do a lot of damage in the next few years.
gravenimage says
‘The threat that is coming out of Turkey is similar to the threat that was coming out of Iran after the revolution’
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Turkey is *not* our ally.
James Lincoln says
Rightly so, gravenimage.
Somehow, Turkey remains a member of NATO…
gravenimage says
Yes–Turkey should have been kicked out of NATO long since.
Just Venting says
I suspect that his support for the MB will not turn out as he would like.
Falsafa says
…another ridiculous hit job on Türkiye (a county with a democratically elected gov). When we protect our interests; we are branded ‘expansionist’ with whatever agenda the western bigots seem to be pursuing at the time. Pure bigotry and racist slander!
furthermore western support for arab dictators is a farce! basically the message to the Egyptian people is that they are not mature enough to enjoy a democratic form of governance. They should put up and shut, suppressed by a brutal military dictator and become effectively a vassal of Israel.
Thankfully logic prevails in all democtratic muslim majority states; Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bosnia with their support for Türkiye…and all the Arab states with their puppet dictators supporting western interests at all costs are against.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a figment of western imagination and folklore and are used as a pathetic excuse for the arab dictators to suppress their people with the western bigots of the ‘JW’ blog gang are on the sidelines clapping these dictators whilst they brutalize their people.
You bigots have no morals, no standards of decency. I would say that you should be ashamed of yourselves but we are way past that, This slanderous article and many others like it within this ‘JW’ blog and ths supporters of this blog are simply trafically pathetic.
Let the personal attacks, insults and even death threats against me from the bigots begin! ‘Gravenimage’ I am waiting for your nasty reply!
gravenimage says
The absurdly self-styled “Falsafa” wrote:
…another ridiculous hit job on Türkiye (a county with a democratically elected gov). When we protect our interests; we are branded ‘expansionist’ with whatever agenda the western bigots seem to be pursuing at the time. Pure bigotry and racist slander!
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Erdogan has been president or prime minister of Turkey since 2003–that puts us deep in dictator territory.
And note that “Falsafa” considers enabling ISIS and threatening Greece and Israel to be Turkey ‘protecting its interests’. By this, Hitler was protecting the interests of Nazi Germany by violently invading its neighbors…
And the idea that our opposing the bloody horrors of Islam is “racist” is absurd–what race is Islam again?
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furthermore western support for arab dictators is a farce! basically the message to the Egyptian people is that they are not mature enough to enjoy a democratic form of governance. They should put up and shut, suppressed by a brutal military dictator and become effectively a vassal of Israel.
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No one here supports Arab dictators, as “Falsafa” well knows. And the main reason he hates Arabs is because they are no longer under the Ottoman heel.
And note the idea that if Muslims are not actively slaughtering Jews that they are a “vassal of Israel”. Really, pious Muslims have no concept of dealing with their neighbors as equals–if they are not enslaving them, they must be–somehow–enslaved.
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Thankfully logic prevails in all democtratic muslim majority states; Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bosnia with their support for Türkiye…and all the Arab states with their puppet dictators supporting western interests at all costs are against.
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The idea that polities which systematically oppress non-Muslims are democracies is more proof that those like “Falsafa” do not understand the meaning of the word.
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The Muslim Brotherhood is a figment of western imagination and folklore and are used as a pathetic excuse for the arab dictators to suppress their people with the western bigots of the ‘JW’ blog gang are on the sidelines clapping these dictators whilst they brutalize their people.
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Uh huh–tell Hamas and the United Action Front that…
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You bigots have no morals, no standards of decency. I would say that you should be ashamed of yourselves but we are way past that, This slanderous article and many others like it within this ‘JW’ blog and ths (sic) supporters of this blog are simply trafically (sic) pathetic.
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“Falsafa” has said similar things before–that if we don’t welcome being raped and murdered by Muslims and have brutal Shari’ah law imposed on us that we are not decent. Sick, sick stuff.
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Let the personal attacks, insults and even death threats against me from the bigots begin! ‘Gravenimage’ I am waiting for your nasty reply!
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Well, this is just grotesque calumny. I have never threatened “Falsafa”, nor has anyone else here. Citations, please.
The fact is that posters at Jihad Watch have just countered “Falsafa’s” vicious claptrap. That he cannot grasp the difference between non-violent countering of his bs and threats is, in fact, very telling.
john smith says
WEll said GI, lies will never defeat truth.
gravenimage says
Thank you, John.
Falsafa says
the usual pure spin from the court jester ‘gravenimage’, completely missing the points I’ve made, flooding the comments section with his warped irrational fantasy notions of so called ‘Sharia’. which he uses as a blanket argument against all rational arguments arguing the Turkish foreign policy thesis. You are clinically insane!
gravenimage says
Note that “Falsafa” is unable to counter a single thing I have said. This should not surprise.
And is “Falsafa” claiming that Shari’ah does not exist? Many of this coreligionists would happily murder him for making such a claim.
Falsafa says
I have countered ‘graven whatever image’s’ arguments point by point. If he were to remove his ‘Sharia is coming to get you’ fantasy, he would knock some sense between his ears and maybe get it!
gravenimage says
Actually, I answered “Falsafa’s” points one by one–he did not do the same.
And his pretending that Shari’ah law does not exist is ludicrous.
OLD GUY says
He reminds me of Hitler and his rise to power. Scary! He’s kinda using the same play book.
infidel says
This has become another pest of a nation after Pakistan and Iran. Expect Saud, Kuwait and even the UAE to turn rogue after their oil power runs out.. Oil has been the jizzia that mother earth now pays to these mad animals and keeps them away from us and keeps them from turning rogue.. But expect this to happen too eventually