Recommendable, but very provocative! About the new Ottoman emperor Erdogan!
As I blogged here before, the rising superpower India may very well consider the Middle East to be West Asia.
Should the NATO membership of Turkey be suspended while Erdogan is still in power?
"Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been Turkey’s most consequential leader since Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded the country a century ago out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. While analysts often cite Erdogan’s consolidation of dictatorship and promotion of political Islam at home and abroad, as consequential is the domestic development of an arms industry that Turkey exports in pursuit of his ideological objectives. ...
While the United States, Europe, and the United Nations prioritise diplomacy and seek to resolve problems through dialogue and discussion, Erdogan prefers to use Turkey’s arms exports to advance his ideological aims. ...
Azerbaijan used Turkish (and Israeli) drones and Turkish Special Forces stormed the mountaintop city of Shushi during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War that began the ethnic cleansing of the Armenian-populated region. ...
During its October 7, 2023 assault on Israel, the greatest single day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, Hamas used Turkish drones. Indeed, Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades released a video two weeks later showing three Turkish drones manufactured by Istanbul’s Assuva Defense Industry. ...
Here, India should be concerned. Pakistan continued to occupy a portion of Kashmir and lay claim to the rest of the Indian Union Territory. ... If and when the Hamas conflict ends ... Erdogan and the coalition he has assembled will likely turn their sites to Kashmir. While this will mean Indian diplomats will need to be prepared to counter a deluge of propaganda, it also makes more likely that Turkey will augment its material support of and perhaps drone and weapons sales to Pakistan-based terrorist groups. ...
Here, India should be concerned. Pakistan continued to occupy a portion of Kashmir and lay claim to the rest of the Indian Union Territory. ... If and when the Hamas conflict ends ... Erdogan and the coalition he has assembled will likely turn their sites to Kashmir. While this will mean Indian diplomats will need to be prepared to counter a deluge of propaganda, it also makes more likely that Turkey will augment its material support of and perhaps drone and weapons sales to Pakistan-based terrorist groups. ...
The best way to deter Turkey from catalysing a new wave of Pakistani terror, therefore, might be [for India] to consolidate relations with the Kurds. ..."
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