Turkey, Erdogan … and the Arabs

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has not invested in Turkey’s special position in the Arab world, which is of rare influence there. I mean the emotional influencer.
There may not be a popular consensus on nostalgia for the days of the Caliphate, but the Arab peoples have sweet and bitter memories of that time, which was an asset to add to the objective balance of the Turkey in the Arab world … religion, neighborhood and culture.
And from all these strengths was born a close relationship that included all aspects of life on both sides, as a non-Ottoman Turkey made the first Islamic recognition of Israel, which was at the height of its existential struggle. with the Arabs and their Islamic expansion, as well as its NATO affiliation, which Arab public opinion deemed hostile. At least it didn’t strike the Turkish-Arab relationship at its roots, and when some of us recalled the history of the Alexandria Brigade, contempt and justification was an alternative to considering the restoration of this part as a sacred and urgent task.
In a limited online article, there is no room for a detailed account or even titles of the components of the Turkish-Arab relationship, but what we are now requires an objective look at the reality of the relationship. Let’s start with the relationship with Israel …
Turkey is advancing everyone in the level, form and content of this relationship, which causes the Turkish state to lose the gravity of the disagreement with the Jewish state and its influence, especially with regard to the Palestinians, as well as its position on the issue of normalization, and if positions and policies are balanced, then relations with Israel outweigh the extent of relations with the Palestinians. And most Arabs, without negating the importance of any Turkish initiative in the interest of both sides of the Palestinian divide; In Gaza, they sing about the exploits of the caliphate state, and in the West Bank, they recall the number of visits Abbas made to Turkey, and in both cases the benefits seem non-essential and dominated by symbolism and propagandism.
Another issue is how Mr. Erdogan treated the relationship with Egypt, so that he chose the first and last ruler of the Turkish state to merge his policies and positions with the policies and positions of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in particular, as if Erdogan had chosen “impossible” to overthrow the Egyptian regime on a “possible” coexistence with the Egyptian state, in Under the disagreement on one thing it was not appropriate, nor even feasible , for Mr. Erdogan to open an inciting media battle on which he spent a lot, that is to say he placed the “big” Turkey in a narrow angle, by his deliberate contempt for a historical axiom and strategic, namely that Egypt embodies the main gateway to the Arab world. And if we widen the circle further, it is in its place much larger than a door.
At a meeting where we were the guests of President Amin Gemayel in Bikfaya, we met a representative of the Turkish Justice and Development Party, and we discussed the fatal flaw in relations with Egypt due to Turkish exaggeration in merging with the Brotherhood … In conclusion, we informed our Turkish friend that welcoming the refugees from the Egyptian Brotherhood in Turkey is something that can be digested, and as for the opening of a battle goes on for years, it does not suit a superpower that has fundamental interests with the superpower. , Egypt, and we have suggested a way out for that, which is mediation, and if it succeeds, it will be with it. There are many positive common links between two countries.
The news that spoke of a first positive development in relations between the two great countries fueled the show of lovers of Egypt and Turkey, and if the normalization of relations is done in all its aspects, it will lead to mutual benefits for both parties. , for Turkey’s “little sugar” and the inherited and growing relationship with Israel are by no means more important than Turkey’s relationship with Egypt and its Arab and Islamic expansion, as well as the issue with the Palestinians who want Turkey much more than what has been presented before, thanks for everything that has been presented
The normalization of relations with Egypt will not be the normalization of a bilateral relationship between two countries living in the same region, but rather it will open the doors of healthy relations with all of Egypt’s allies, the first and not the last being the Gulf. countries which know Turkey better than others what normal relations with her mean.

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