Ο Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has created a myth around his name and especially his intentions about the future and he takes care at regular intervals to give him feedback and rekindle.
Until a few years ago, international analysts described the Turkish president as a "sultan" somewhere between serious and funny. Whether they knew more about his future plans or not, it seems the time has come.
Now, not even Erdogan himself seems to be trying to give up such a title, even for the formal reason. Barely. From his movements and from the successive fronts that he constantly opens, he does not seem to be satisfied with the title of "absolute sultan of TurkeyBut to seek something more.
It is almost clear that Erdogan wants to become the sultan of all Muslims. According to the "caliph in the position of caliph", Erdogan wants to become "Hassan Al Banna in the place of Hassan Al Banna" and to continue through his own vision the vision of its founder Muslim Brotherhood.
Maybe that's why, more than ever, the Turkish president seems to be copying Al Banna lately.
For most, Erdogan's move to turn it Hagia Sophia in a mosque was a vengeful move towards Greece for the then growing tension in the Eastern Mediterranean.
For those who can read the facts, however, this move by the Turkish president was not accidental and certainly not vindictive. Erdogan offered the Hagia Sophia a "gift" to the Muslim Brotherhood.
"Erdogan uses a very typical rhetoric of Hassan al-Banna. "If you decipher his speeches, you will hear what the Brotherhood says about the West and Israel," said Gokan Bakik, an expert on Islam and politics in the modern Middle East. Aww He added that "both leaders have a similar stance on domestic policies, what they say to their followers and their pragmatic stance."
In order not to leave any room for misinterpretation, in fact, shortly after the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a Mosque, Erdogan, through the Turkish Ministry of Communications, released the video that you will see below.
For us, #Kızılelma is bigger and lighter in Turkey. From Malazgirt, on July 15, the epic will be written by our nation.
Kzılelma, ölgesinde's nice mazlumunn ulin çınardır.
From Cebeli Tariq, the Hijaz in the Balkans is the longing of all human beings in Asia. pic.twitter.com/sBLesuGqDH- Fahrettin Altun (@fahrettinaltun) August 24, 2020
For us, #Kızılelma is bigger and lighter in Turkey. From Malazgirt, on July 15, the epic will be written by our nation.
Kzılelma, ölgesinde's nice mazlumunn ulin çınardır.
From Cebeli Tariq, the Hijaz in the Balkans is the longing of all human beings in Asia. pic.twitter.com/sBLesuGqDH
- Fahrettin Altun (@fahrettinaltun) August 24, 2020
What many saw but few realized (in this storm of images) is that towards the end of the video (specifically at 03:05) an actor is seen as Muhammad II the Conqueror to march towards Hagia Sophia and in this "wedge" plan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to be walking outside the presidential palace! Trying to look like a sequel is more than clear.
In fact, Erdogan is not just trying to create a new Ottoman Empire, but he wants to revive Islam and become the new Hassan al-Banna himself.
And this is proved not only by propaganda videos but also in practice by the ground invasions that implement the "National Oath" of 1920 for the reconstitution of part of the Ottoman Empire (Northern Iraq, Northwestern and Northern Central Syria), and the attempt to Cyprus and the restriction of Greece to the "right side" of the Aegean.
"Allah is our goal, the Qur'an is the Constitution. The Prophet is our leader. Jihad is our way. "Death for the sake of Allah is our desire." The above is the basic motto of the Muslim Brotherhood.
At its core is a pan-Islamic, religious and social movement which was "born" in 1928 and by the end of World War II had more than 2 million members!
The Muslim Brotherhood has found fertile ground for development in Egypt "Because of the great social problems that afflicted the Egyptian people. Illiteracy, poverty, corruption of the state apparatus, party rivalries and of course colonialism were factors that had led to the decline of Egyptian society. And all this was caused due to the non-implementation of Islam. "The only solution for the Brotherhood was none other than Islam."
As Panos Kourgiotis writes in his book "The First Youth of Islam", with the formation of such an ideology, its members were now obliged, among other things, to swear that they consider as a source of "delay" of their contemporaries Muslims the "sad admission" that they had forgotten the true principles of their religion, to which they were again called upon to return by implementing the program of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Thus began the formation of Islamist thought, while its followers were called "Islamists" by Western thought, because they were, according to Kourgiotis, "followers of an Islam that was perceived not as a religion, but as a complete model for society.
The founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, as already mentioned, was the (at least) controversial Hassan al-Banna. A fierce orator and a great political mind, al-Banna sought to penetrate any gap left by the secular way of governing Muslim states.
But he was also a huge follower of Adolf Hitler! He translated "Mein Kampf" and it is said that many members of the fraternity fought on their own side on the side of the Nazis in the battles of North Africa. It is no coincidence, after all, that in the way al-Banna envisioned the Islamic State, many elements from Nazi Germany had "joined".
As a true political son of Necmettin Erbakan, Erdogan continued his anti-Western and pro-Islamic policies.
As early as 1969, Necmettin Erbakan manifested in a manifesto the so-called "National View" (Millî Görüş), a mixture of anti-Western, nationalist and Islamic ideology. In 1973, he characteristically stated that his party was opposed to Turkey's association with the then EEC, while Turkey's membership in NATO was nothing more than a heavy financial burden for the country.
At a strange time, in fact, the following year (1970), Erdogan first came in contact with senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood on the sidelines of a conference organized by the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, an organization that years later funded both as well as Al Qaeda.
The darker paths we take, the stranger Erdogan's relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood becomes. And if one studies the correlations in the Muslim world a little more carefully, one will better understand why the President of Turkey opens so many fronts there as well.
The Sunni Arab world is in conflict with the Shiites and of course with the "sect" of the Muslim Brotherhood who after the "Arab Spring", Took care to play an important role in the coming of the so-called" Islamic Winter "and the successive civil wars in Syria, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Bahrain, Somalia.
Exceptions to the Sunnis are Turkey and Qatar, which fully support the Muslim Brotherhood. This is one of the main reasons why Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Sunni countries Middle East with a Western geopolitical orientation, is in open confrontation with Turkey.
Erdogan provides logistical support to the Muslim Brotherhood and in many cases provides asylum to its persecuted members. In addition, he reacted strongly when the US announced (without having done so yet) that it would include the Brotherhood in the list of terrorist organizations.
As long as the President of Turkey tries to make his visions come true, it is more than obvious that he is creating many opponents, large or small.
Maybe what he considers a bigger thorn is the media. That's why he chases them with such intensity. One of these thorns is ahvalnews.com. It is a site based in the United Arab Emirates and essentially functions as an observatory of the movements of Erdogan who in 2018 decided to "hit" it.
It cut off access to this site to all internet users in Turkey, which practically means that it removes money and influence from an opponent who is used to publishing texts such as which analyzes how the Turkish president follows in the footsteps of Hassan al-Banna.
The site is funded by the United Arab Emirates and the company to which it belongs is based in Cyprus. Editor-in-Chief Yavuz Baydar leaves Turkey after coup attempt because Erdogan is chasing him as his accomplice Fethullah Gulen.
"The term 'civilized negotiations does not exist in Erdogan's vocabulary,'" Baidar said in an article last July, warning that "the Erdogan-Bahceli Islamist-nationalist duo is based on the doctrine that 'the army should do first' and not the military." a step back to his expansive aspirations ".