The blatant criticism of the military’s role in Egypt is a message from Erdogan to the Turkish interior. He wants to distort the Egyptian army’s image to justify further action that weakens the Turkish army and blocks any coup attempts. Portraying the Egyptian army as a group of putschists who oppress and kill civilian protesters and Erdogan’s media focusing on bloody scenes aims to consolidate the image of Erdogan and his group as “persecuted.” This aims to generate popular sympathy to compensate for the decline in AKP popularity after the suppression of the Taksim and Gezi uprising. Portraying Erdogan as a victim is not possible now that he has betrayed all the democratic forces that helped him get rid of the military’s influence only to establish an authoritarian rule with a religious penchant. The Turkish attitude against the June 30 revolution is dangerous because it signals Turkey’s blatant interference in Egyptian internal affairs. Erdogan is dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood as if it were a Turkish component, not an Egyptian one. This looks like a return to Ottoman Empire, against which the most serious rebellion came from the ruler of Egypt Muhammad Ali Pasha and his son Ibrahim Pasha in the first half of the 19th century. Had England and the major powers not protected the Ottoman sultan back then, Ibrahim Pasha’s military campaign would have ended the Ottoman sultanate after he stood on the outskirts of Adana in Anatolia. The June 30 revolution will not under any circumstance allow the return of the Ottomans to Egypt or to the Arab region. Read more: al-monitor/pulse/politics/2013/08/akp-turkey-hysteria-egypt-coup-brotherhood.html#ixzz2cvZSEH1u
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 22:17:06 +0000
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