Oct. 24, 2018 - Steve Pieczenik
04:40
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| Hi, this is Dr. | |
| Buchenek and Steve Talks. | |
| Today I want to talk about the resurgence of Turkey and Iran, thanks to none other than Saudi Arabia's incompetent prince, Mohammed bin Salman. | |
| What Mohammed bin Salman had done by killing Kosoji on Turkish territory was in fact to resurrect Erdogan's position in the Middle East as the leader of the Sunni nations. | |
| And what do I mean? | |
| For well over several hundred years, the Turks have been quite predominant in the Middle East, quite frankly, all over the world. | |
| The Ottoman Empire lasted for 800 years, and Turkey, ironically, is very close to Iran, a Shiite country. | |
| So the border between Turkey and Iran, or Turkey and Persia, has been there for hundreds of years. | |
| It's one of the most solid, stable borders from all over the world. | |
| And Iran has about a third of its population are Turks, Zibijanian Turks. | |
| A third of Turks' population are Iranians. | |
| So in fact, what has happened is Saudi Arabia has literally denigrated its position within the Sunni world Because of the fact that they dismembered Kosoji, because Mohammed bin Salman couldn't tell the truth, he was cowardly, ineffectual. | |
| As a result of that, the king of Saudi Arabia cannot defend what his son has done. | |
| And so, in effect, Erdogan has been laying out evidence, little by little, like a Chinese torture, to really say to the world, you know what? | |
| Take a look. | |
| I'm the new head of the Sunni Empire. | |
| I may not be in charge of Mecca or Medina, which are the two holy sites of Saudi Arabia for the Muslims, but in fact, I will be in charge of the Sunni world. | |
| And guess who is my closest ally? | |
| It will be Iran. | |
| Now, ironically, yours truly has said for about 10 years that Turkey and Iran and Russia would be the three dominant powers Not the United States, not Israel, and not Saudi Arabia. | |
| The reason for that has its roots really in the fact that Turkey has been there and has been able to change with the times into the modern times. | |
| And it goes back to the time when... | |
| Atatürk, the head of Turkey in the 1930s, Mustafa Kemal, and his counterpart, the Shah Pahlavi of Iran, were very friendly and they exchanged all kinds of information regarding reformation of both countries. | |
| As a result of that, they made sure that Turkey and Iran would grow together and be partners together in the 20th century and the 21st century. | |
| I still believe now, because of Saudi Arabia's major default as a nation state... | |
| As a legitimate nation state, it can no longer take the predominance of the Sunni power. | |
| In turn, what's happened is that Israel will also have to subordinate its interests because Israel has been a good partner to Saudi Arabia, and quite frankly, Israel has been a strategic liability for the United States. | |
| At present, we in the military and national security area will have to adjust our concerns to the predominant powers in the area, i.e. Turkey. | |
| Turkey, Iran, and now Russia. | |
| And subjugate our other concerns regarding Saudi Arabia and other Qatar. | |
| Now, the prince not only has violated the national sovereignty of Turkey, it also violated the national sovereignty of Yemen, creating hundreds of thousands of He also brought in Prime Minister from Lebanon, Harari, a Sunni official because of Harari's affiliation with Hezbollah. | |
| And he's also demonized Qatar, which has also been close to Iran. | |
| So Mohammed bin Salman is bye-bye. | |
| Now let me give you the quote from a writer, Stephen Kinsner, who says, Turkey will always evolve effectively because it has the capability to change very quickly. |
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