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The Turkish predicament
[NPASYRIA] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
 lost its role as the southeastern wing of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
 against the Soviet Union with the end of the Cold War. Ottoman Turkish politicians tried to search for a Ottoman Turkish role in the post-Cold War world, such as President Turkut Ozal, who said that Turkey’s vital sphere is the Ottoman Turkish world extending from the Aegean Sea to Turkestan in northwestern China, where the Uyghur people live, an idea in line with Turanism. It contradicts Ataturk’s nationalism, which restricted Ottoman Turkish nationalism to the borders of the Ottoman Turkish Republic, which was established in 1923.
Posted by: Fred 2021-05-10
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