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Erdogan is Arab world’s most popular leader, opinion poll finds
We begin our visit from an article by writer David Gardner in the Financial Times titled “Selection of Erdogan as Most Popular Leader Among Arab Peoples Reveals Weakness of the Region’s Rulers.”
The writer begins his article by talking about the popularity of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey as a leader who has dominated Turkish politics for nearly two decades. But he notes that this popularity has “started to be eroded by its authoritarian rule and the decline in its ability to provide economic prosperity to its religious and conservative followers.”
The article notes that a poll in the Arab world released last week declared Erdogan to be the “most popular leader” in the Arab world.
The author says that there may be a contradiction in this matter. Many believed that no Turkish ruler, heir to the Ottoman Empire which ruled the Arab world for more than four centuries, could have enjoyed such high esteem from the Arabs. What if that leader were Erdogan, whose “neo-Ottoman ambitions are evident through maps detailing Turkey’s demands for tracts of land in Syria and Iraq, and who has occupied four regions of northern Syria since 2016” .
The author adds that the institution that conducted the poll, the “Arab Barometer”, consistently reveals that Erdogan has the highest percentage and has interviewed more than 20,000 people to prove it. He says his closest regional rivals, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are far behind him.
Gardner views some of the reasons for this difference in popularity as positive and others as troubling. Arab citizens, disenfranchised by their autocratic rulers, have often shown vulnerability to populist heroes. He takes the example of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the legendary Egyptian ruler, as he describes it, who fascinated the Arab world with the illusion of Arab nationalism during the period from his nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 to the shameful defeat. Arabs in the 1967 war with Israel.
The writer talks about two reasons why Erdogan’s ambitions extend beyond his country’s borders. The first reason is the turmoil that has prevailed in the Arab region over the past decade, after the start of the so-called Arab Spring uprisings. The second reason is the lack of leadership for Sunni Arabs at a time when Iran is working to form a Shiite alliance across the Levant to the Mediterranean.
The writer believes that Erdogan’s enmity with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and the Assad regime in Syria has not affected the image of the man who derives its legitimacy in Arab eyes from being an election winner more than a dozen times.
“Arab public opinion also seems to appreciate Erdogan’s growing penchant for so-called hard power and his challenge not only of Israel but also of the United States,” Gardner said. Through the use of drones, militias and mercenaries, he succeeded in reversing the balance of power in the civil war in Libya, helped Azerbaijan to reclaim the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region with Armenia and established its roots in northern Syria in areas it expelled Kurdish fighters loyal to the United States from.
The author says that while Turkey sees its control of northern Syria as a legitimate confirmation of its national influence, its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are expressing concern that they are see it as a “new Ottoman step towards the achievement of regional hegemony.” ”
extermination massacres
“The Independent” newspaper publishes an article by Angelina Newsom titled “Biden Acknowledges Genocide Against Armenians.” It is time to also talk about the Amerindians ”.
The writer begins his article by talking about what was triggered by the official recognition by US President Joe Biden of the genocide that took place against the Armenians in 1915 from a discussion of the legitimacy of the United States to publish such statements about genocide around the world at a time when he has yet to seriously address his history of genocide to the right of Native Americans.
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Turks demonstrate outside US consulate in Istanbul to protest Biden’s recognition of Armenian genocide
The writer says the discussion focused on two things that have caught on in the media and on social media, the spread of wildfires, which is an article published in The Independent in 2019 titled: “Erdogan Threatens To recognize the killings against Native Americans as genocide in response to the Armenian Genocide ruling ”and a music video from former Republican Senator, CNN commentator Rick Santorum says,“ We created a nation from nothing. Twitter users called on Erdogan to follow through on his threat.
The writer believes that the rhetoric that the United States has already acknowledged the genocide it committed against Native Americans is not true. The lessons given to students in schools on this subject are gentle lessons on the “displacement” of the indigenous population or their involvement in wars with white settlers in self-defense to justify the genocidal massacres which took place on a large scale. ladder. Too often, American politics are absolved of responsibility in blaming disease and other factors for the dwindling numbers of indigenous people.
The author quotes the original The Independent article by Vincent Wood as saying that “war, slavery and displacement also contributed to the decline of the indigenous population”, and says there is another word to describe it all. that and it is “genocide.” ”
Without acknowledging it, she continues, the credibility of the US government in international politics will be subject to a “what about” deception and the genocide of indigenous peoples will be exploited against the United States.
The author concludes his article by saying that it is good that the United States officially recognizes the crimes of the Armenian genocide, because it shows that the government is able to develop on certain issues. But for America to maintain its credibility on human rights issues and past atrocities, it must also recognize its history in this area and work to correct it.
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