Erdoğan should Address the Sincere Ummah and not The Guardians of Sykes-Picot for Islamic Unity and Brotherhood!

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Addressing the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called for greater unity and brotherhood among Islamic countries. Erdoğan also said, “We will not allow the establishment of a new Sykes-Picot order in our region with borders to be drawn in blood.” And he emphasized once again that the solution lies in “diplomacy and dialogue”.

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What kind of unity and brotherhood is Erdoğan calling for? And how does he hope to establish this unity?

Erdoğan’s emphasis on a “solution through diplomacy and dialogue” once again is merely the expression of his desire to preserve the “existing Sykes-Picot order”.

The obstacles in front of unity and brotherhood in Islam are indeed the “Sykes-Picot” borders already drawn with blood, and the nation states established within these borders, and the West’s puppet regimes, who protect these nation states. Islamic unity and brotherhood cannot be built through talks about nationalism, nation state borders, or the protection of Turkey’s, Iran’s, Palestine’s, Syria’s etc. borders, and not by suppressing the Muslims’ unity in Iman under national identities. Palestine, and in particular Gaza, is clear evidence of this. With its borders drawn by Sykes-Picot, with the shackles of Lausanne, its copy-paste constitution from the West, its domestic and foreign policies dictated by international conventions, and by becoming the first Muslim country to recognise the Zionist monster as a legal state for the sake of appeasing its Western masters, does the Turkish Republic not serve as the clearest evidence for the betrayal of brotherhood?

What did Erdoğan contribute to Islamic brotherhood since he became prime minister to Turkey in 2003 and then president in 2014? Let’s keep his betrayals in Egypt and Syria aside for now. Since his famous “One Minute!” and “Al-Quds is our red-line”, he betrayed the martyrs of the Mavi Marmara Flotilla, while multiplying Turkey’s trade volume with the Zionist umpteen times. While uttering countless heart-wrenching words about Gaza, he met all the needs of the “Nazi”, as he names the terrorist, fed it with petrol, steel, combat boots, white appliances and foodstuff, while passing on the Muslims’ problems to the creators of “Sykes-Picot”, who shatter the Ummah in pieces. In fact, Erdoğan, who acts as the CEO of this Sykes-Picot institution -more precisely the “firm for services to the Zionist”- did not do anything for Gaza’s paramedics, who were burned alive, its physicians, who are tortured in the Zionist’s dungeons, its mothers’, who undergo C-section without anaesthesia, and its children, whose limbs are amputated without anaesthesia, its hungry children, who are burned alive.

This, despite having the world’s 9th strongest and the NATO’s 4th strongest standing army, despite having a son in law, who produces the world’s most advanced UAVs and UCAVs, and cutting-edge warplanes; instead, he parrots the doctrines of the “Sykes-Picot” preachers - emphasizes that solution “lies within diplomacy and dialogue” and the “two-state solution”.

In brief: Erdoğan’s perception of brotherhood is not the Islamic brotherhood! His call for Islamic unity is not in the unity shown by Rasulullah (saw). The figures, whom Erdoğan addresses with his call for unity, are the Ruwaibidah, who endeavour to suffocate the Muslims’ word of Truth, and who stand as obstacles to the greatness (izzah) of the Ummah. If the genocidal Zionist -who understands the shedding of the blood of the Muslims in Palestine and the blood of the Gaza’s children and anyone other than itself as its sole purpose of existence- is still standing and even gets more and more savage with growing boldness, then the reason is clear: It is because of Erdoğan, who, just like the Arab rulers, strives for power and dignity in capitalist systems and not in Islam, and who takes side with his infidel friends instead of taking place in the ranks of the Ummah.

If Erdoğan desires Islamic unity: there he has the millions of Muslims, who are united for Gaza, waiting for a single order coming out from his mouth. If Erdogan desires Islamic brotherhood: There he has millions of Muslims, who hurt for their brothers and sisters, and who yearn to become soldiers in the army, that sets out upon his order.

If Erdoğan were sincere, then he would address the sincere Muslims and not the guardians of Sykes-Picot. If he were since, then he would suggest unity under Qur’an and Sunnah and not capitalist diplomacy as a solution!

Written for The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Zehra Malik