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Turkey: Threatening Europe from the Middle East

Opinion: French Lawyer Dr. Elie Hatem on the latest crisis between Qatar and its neighbours – and the role of Ankara

Published: June 25, 2017, 7:14 pm

    Little by little, public opinion is discovering how we have been manipulated for a long time and how chaos has been made to settle in the world, especially in Europe these last few years. This manipulation is carried out by intelligence services and through propaganda, scrupulously organised in the diplomatic spheres and media.

    This chaos has led to the destabilisation of state structures. Secret societies are also involved in this project, relying on the use of religious factors for political purposes.

    On one hand, the Muslim religion has been instrumentalized for political aims. This has been experienced since the war in Afghanistan in the late 1970s when a movement called “political Islam” emerged. It has been supported by secret organisations, including the Muslim Brotherhood whose mode of operation is analogous of that of the Freemasons. Those organizations have massive funds in order to destabilise states.

    On the other hand, the main powers in countries with Muslim majorities are ushered by the afore-mentioned organisations and propaganda into conflicts of influence, in order to try to assert themselves as dominant powers.

    To the Sunni-Shiite conflicts could be added hegemonial attempts of the subservient actors of “political Islam”: governments and politicians who are acting in an ostentatious way on the international stage, in particular in the Middle East, such as Qatar and Turkey.

    Confined to silence for long, and even driven into conflicts that could have been avoided, Saudi Arabia rebelled against this political project which is more and more likely to jeopardize its internal stability, decimate its institutions and, therefore, impose itself on other Gulf countries, including in an extensive way on other states that have been spared by what the media has labelled the “Arab Spring”.

    Aware of this danger, the Saudi kingdom took measures in order to make those projects fail and to jinx the pawns on the regional chessboard. This is a matter of life or death for the kingdom, but also shows that is has been aware of the danger that this game poses for the whole world. Indeed, it is not enough to fight terrorist organisations (those who claim themselves to be Muslim) militarily, but to take real measures in order to destroy their structures and to stop their proliferation.

    Thus, and despite the pressure on the Saudi kingdom, it took the initiative to tackle the source of the so-called “Islamists” or “political Islam”. After having been blamed for supporting such organisations, due to the silence to which it had been confined, it became the main power fighting those movements. It took measures not only on its territory but also against Qatar which is a showcase for secret services with their intrigues, feeding political Islamist organisations. The neighbours of Saudi Arabia (United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait) but also Egypt followed Riyad in taking similar measures against Qatar.

    The Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan is closely involved in the Muslim Brotherhood and has obviously been actively participating in spreading its influence in recent years, as it has now mobilised militarily in support of the Qatari government.

    This initiative is likely to threaten stability and security not only in the Middle East but also in Europe. Indeed, it no longer escapes any less keen scholar that the Turkish government has provided military training, logistical as well as financial support to ISIS, by allowing the latter to obtain funds through the sale of oil via Turkey.

    Based on a flood of demagogic propaganda, the Turkish government convinced the international public opinion of a military operation that it intended to carry out in Syria and Iraq, “to fight ISIS”. But, in fact, this operation provided support to the jihadists, since Kurdish Peshmerga fighters – the real opposition to ISIS – were targeted by the Turkish army.

    Let us also recall the ties of Erdogan’s regime to the Muslim Brothers who support Hamas in Palestine, in order to discredit the national Palestinian cause. Beyond this fact, let us not forget that as soon as Mohamad Morsi came to power in Egypt, Recep Tayyip Erdogan hastened to Cairo to congratulate Morsi and to proclaim victory for the Brotherhood, the main vehicle for political Islam, both in Egypt and Tunisia where the Islamist party, Al Nahda, came to power.

    In addition, Erdogan’s government undoubtedly still support, together with the Qatari government, the paramilitary groups, known as Islamists, in Libya.

    The goal of the Turkish government is to destabilise state structures, ranging from North Africa to the confines of the Middle East, in order to establish a Turkish hegemonic power and restore the “Ottoman” caliphate.

    This project also aims to destabilise both Eastern and Western Europe: Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Austria. It includes Germany too, as it boasts a huge Turkish community on its territory. The current sightings of Turkey in the Gulf area aim to reinforce its hegemonic project and the repercussions thereof will be dramatic for the West. Indeed, and in this case, Western countries will be obliged to compete with this superpower which will control a large space, holding the key to destabilising movements. This will result in Turkey being able to put any kind of pressure on Europeans, including attacks on their soil launched from an adjacent territory.

    The most disturbing thing is that Turkey is a member of NATO and the alliance has made no effort whatsoever to stop the encroachment or to make the nefarious Turkish project fail. Instead of tackling the consequences of “political Islam” through sporadic military operations against its military organisations, it is necessary to attack the source of evil, breaking with the current masochistic strategy, and bringing Islamist organisations to heel

    It would clearly mean excluding Turkey from NATO and taking serious measures against the Qatari’s.

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