Turkey and Turkish Nationalism in the Globalising World
Ancient Turkic communities with the same roots and beliefs were assimilated by the Soviets and the Chinese and neutralised through oppression and persecution.
Turkey and Turkish Nationalism in the Globalising World
With the beginning of the 21st century, very important events are taking place both for the world and for Turkey. With the collapse of 70 years of Communism in Russia and its satellites, the bipolar world order was replaced by a single-centred system dominated by the US gendarme. On the other hand, the new situation has resulted in Turkey suddenly opening its doors to the Turkic World of 300 million people. However, in the Turkic world, in the Turkestan geography, an unnamed struggle between the US and Turkey in mutual political, economic and military problems began to increase. In this sense, there were and continued to be mutual confrontations based on these.
In the old order, unfortunately, for two centuries, the Muslim-Turkic tribes and communities in Central Asia and the Caucasus were portrayed as if their ethnic origins were different. It was problematic that these tribes were a single nation, that they were a part of the great Turkish nation, and that the idea of nationalism in this sense sprouted in the Turkistan geography. The idea of Turkishness was constantly postponed. Ancient Turkic communities with the same roots and beliefs were assimilated by the Soviets and the Chinese and neutralised through oppression and persecution.
With the end of the Cold War, the 'turmoil environment', which constituted a ground for reawakening especially in Soviet lands, became a new hope for the Turkestan tribes. However, this expected awakening in the Turkic world frightened the US and western imperialist countries. For this reason, the Western world, realising that the steps to be taken by the Turks, who will take strength from the Turkestan world and will have a population and geography as large as 300 million, under the leadership of Turkey will have global effects, immediately took steps to develop countermeasures.
First of all, they made their attitude towards Turkey even more oppressive. The global powers trying to steer the New World Order, the Western countries, which keep Turkey away from the region, keep the Turkic societies and states here in the 'local' line, but want to use their economic assets to serve their global purposes in a state open to the exploitation policies of globalisation, have developed a stance to prevent Turkey's efforts to stay close to this region.
On the other hand, the Arab world could not develop a way beyond being under the command of the West with the governments and kingdoms imposed on it on the basis of tribe and sect after the First World War. American social theorist John Naisbitt says in his work "Global Paradox": "The concept of nation will be abolished and the tribalism system will be brought to the forefront instead, so that the order of dominating the whole world by pitting tribes against each other will be adopted. In addition, the weight of individual companies, not the state, will increase in the economy."
What is desired is that the world domination is completely in the hands of the USA and the Jewish community standing behind the scenes of this superpower. For years, some of our politicians have been boasting about the tribal-tribal and sectarian identity system such as Turk, Kurd, Zaza, Circassian, Yoruk instead of the "Muslim Turkish Nation". Since the Christian fathers, brothers and relatives of the devshirs and converts were supposedly "Muslims", the Ottoman Dynasty valued them by making them viziers, grand viziers and appointing them to the top management of the state. Historical records reveal this. However, Muslim Turks, who were expected to be the true owners of the state, were treated as serfs and slaves in their own state.
Paul Colles, a European historian, summarises the issue by saying of the devshirme-turned administrators, "This Muslim Turkish Empire was only in the way of rewarding those who were not Muslim and Turkish-born!". Since Sultan Mehmet IV, Sabatayists who dissolved themselves within the Ottoman Empire and blended into the society are still able to find a place for themselves in important positions among us.
Let us return to our Turkishness, to our Turkish values, to our understanding of nationalism that the Republic offered us with Atatürk, to our essence. Let's not give a premium to internal politics that disrupt our integrity. Let us not forget that if the "Muslim-Turkish Identity" is tribalised, "Anatolian Peoples" will be used instead of "Turkey", which means the end of us all. Let us come to our senses. Let's be one, let's be big, let's be alive.