The path for Turkey is open and clear: Regardless of which country, the front of which forces stands against it, the defense plan that started with Afrin is going to be completed; a Turkey Shield is going to be built from Afrin to the Iranian border.From now on, striking from the inside with terrorism, sieging with terrorism just outside the border and multinational invasion plans that seem like “terrorism” are no longer going to be promoted with any political discourse or camouflaged with any d
The path for Turkey is open and clear: Regardless of which country, the front of which forces stands against it, the defense plan that started with Afrin is going to be completed; a Turkey Shield is going to be built from Afrin to the Iranian border.
From now on, striking from the inside with terrorism, sieging with terrorism just outside the border and multinational invasion plans that seem like “terrorism” are no longer going to be promoted with any political discourse or camouflaged with any dual or multiparty proposal and reconciliation.
Our relations with the U.S., our relations with EU-member countries (I’m not saying the EU because soon it will no longer exist), our relations with some Arab countries in the region are going to take shape based entirely on Turkey’s security priorities, on political and economic priorities and on strategic future plans.
We suggest our former allies forget their expectations of a “Turkey doomed to a one-sided dependency” forever. The era of “confining Turkey in the Atlantic axis” again, stalling it with “strategic partner” lies once more, running the tutelage mechanism that has been ongoing throughout the 20th century once again is over. Because the 20th century has closed for Turkey, and the great rising era of the 21st century Turkey has started.
The Afrin operation was conducted against the biggest multinational conspiracy aimed at taking this country hostage. Plans to overtake by means of encircling, sieging, threatening, scaring and intimidating have all gone down the drain. And this is only the beginning. Immediately after Manbij, many regions toward the east such as Ayn al-Arab, Tal Abyad, and Sinjar and Qandil that are toward northern Iraq are going to be the targets of this cleansing operation, of the building of this defense line.
The strategic target for us is the entire northern line from the Mediterranean to the Iranian border. This zone will no longer be a threat to our country.
This must be done very quickly, because Turkey has neither the time nor the patience for this zone. Because there will be bigger global showdowns starting; a new region is going to be built; some of the countries in the region will be wiped off the political map, and Turkey is going to get into greater struggles to settle right into the center of the global power domain that will form anew.
We are not going to allow them to strike us from the inside with terrorism for 40 years and drain the country’s entire energy and stop it internally, and then hit our country for another 10 years from the outside, siege it and stop it by stalling it with that zone.
We are going to take the opportunities for them to stop us from the inside of the country and from our surroundings away from them. The entire world must be shown that the political genetic continuing since the Seljuks cannot be stopped from the inside or through close surrounding operations.
Turkey did not fight terrorism in Afrin. This is not an issue of terrorism. Our issue inside the country and its surroundings is no longer terrorism. Our fighting strategy is not going to be fighting terrorism either. We are defending our country against the attacks of our former allies. We are trying to eliminate the dangers aimed at us in our region.
This is as much a regional struggle for power and a part of a global power showdown as it is a homeland defense. Turkey cannot possibly make the historic rise of the 21st century before putting up this fight. The opposite of this fight, of this goal is suicide, destruction and Turkey’s division. In other words, there is no other option.
The multinational attacks during the Gezi Park events, on Dec. 17-25 and on July 15 have taught us this. We know they are going to try again. The U.S., Europe, Israel and some countries in the region have directly been involved in these attacks and will do it again. Therefore, we know that we can never seek refuge in an option such a defense, such as stopping it on the inside. Therefore, we are going to go to where the threat is, and go with our own rules and game plans and face it there before the threat comes to us.
Hence, a discussion such as, “What is Turkey going to do from now on; where is it going to intervene; is there something else after Afrin” are meaningless and futile. They are all going to happen; there will be no hesitation until that zone is completely cleared. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Saudi administration, the U.S., Europe and Israel should also know this. Most importantly, our people need to know that, regardless of the price, no sacrifice will be avoided for the defense of this country; there will be no indecisiveness.
This is our region. Just as Anatolia is our homeland, just as it is defended by the “Relentless Resistance,” our region is also our memory, our identity and our strength. Nobody can shape our perception of our own region.
Nobody can threaten us in our own region. Our sole action point is our own political history. We are striving to start from here and form a road map aimed at the 21st century. Our friends should be sure of this and have confidence in it. Likewise our enemies should be sure of this and accept that, regardless of what scenario is tried, it is no longer possible to make this country kneel.
I am saying it once more: Regardless of what anybody says, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s speeches – looking at the last week alone is enough – give all the signals of what will follow from now on in the clearest way. There is nothing to hide or conceal anyway.
We have set off and started the century-long journey. This nation has never won victory easily or made history with anyone’s help. It has a political history identity and genetic that was formed in the most difficult form of struggle. The world will witness this historic rise once more.
Pay attention to Yeni Şafak daily’s headline today. It was revealed that on the night of July 15, the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) cadre in the Naval Forces anchored 31 ships at the points Erdoğan would go, that they were looking for him, that just as the war jets bombed Parliament and our people, they were getting ready to attack, and if the coup was successful, they were getting ready to take Erdoğan and his entire team on war ships to open seas and were planning on keeping them there for months.
Immediately after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, torture centers were established in Baghram, Abu Ghurayb, Thailand, Israel and Egypt, in Romania, in the African deserts, and Southeast Asia’s rainforests. The gravest crimes against humanity were committed with the secret agreement that was made in Paris, which was signed by 35 countries, and a war was waged on the human race.
Youth were abducted everywhere around the world, they were tortured based on the justification that they were terrorists, and they were never heard from again. This was followed by the revelation of CIA torture planes. I was one of the first people to announce all this. Now, Gina Cheri Haspel, one of the ones managing that traffic, is at the head of the CIA.
Something else happened back then. Tankers were going missing in Southeast Asia. “Piracy” had started and the world was discussing these sea pirates. I wrote articles saying, “The ships are taken by U.S. intelligence. It works on them and turns them into prison ships. It is establishing ship prisons in open seas where no country’s laws are valid. It is holding the people it identifies as ‘terrorists’ on these prison ships.” These facts was revealed years later. As a matter of fact, a movie was made about these ships.
U.S. intelligence was both conducting piracy and running prison ships in open seas, where no country’s laws apply, to avoid both war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Is is not obvious where the idea to take Erdoğan and his team to open seas on July 15 came from? Is it not obvious who gave FETÖ such an instruction? Is it not obvious the kind of war we are facing?
Not only Erdoğan and his close circle, but perhaps hundreds or thousands of people from every circle supporting this political mentality were similarly going to be transported to the prison ships. Perhaps the CIA prison ships were anchored in the Indian Ocean waiting for those to be brought from Turkey.
This is the kind of fight we are in.
This is why we call this the “Century-Old Showdown.”
