EDITOR’S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis).  We don’t know where to start with Erdogan… Should we underline his retail sense of international law? When it fits his interests, he respects international law. Elsewhere, in Cyprus, he pretends he is deaf… We should explain that he took this position supposedly to protect the Tatars who live in Crimea and other places in Russia.  He follows the same policy (of inciting Turkish or Muslim minorities to rise) elsewhere and specifically in the Balkans from Bosnia to Skopje to Bulgaria and Greece.

But the best way to analyze this behavior is ethnic psychoanalysis – in other words analyzing Turkish identity, the Turkish soul, as it was formed through the centuries and presents itself today. Historians know that the Turks’ number one trait is megalomania- which is clearly depicted in their efforts today to become a regional power.  But there is something darker in the Turkish soul, when it comes to opposing Russia, as Erdogan did by demanding Crimea to return to Ukraine.  I have said many times that there is nobody the Turks fear so deeply and so viscerally as they do fear the Russians. During the last 300 years Russians and Turks fought countless wars, some of them over Crimea and the Tatars.  The overwhelming majority of these wars ended with a disaster for the Turks. In the late 1820s, one of them was the main factor in the Ottoman Empire’s break-up and Greece’s gaining independence.

The response to Erdogan came swiftly from Maria Zakharova: “There is no discussion about Russian subjects”, she said.  If Erdogan keeps this course for another few years, the most likely outcome will be devastating for Turkey.  I can easily imagine in a year or so, President Trump agreeing with President Putin in a new “Yalta Conference” (by the way, the first one took place in 1945 in villa “Livadia” in Crimea, the house of Lambros Catsonis, a Russian Navy Officer and an early warrior for the Independence of Greece).  The agreement can easily involve the split of Turkey into two or three parts and the creation of a Kurdish state… Nobody in the area, neither the Greeks nor the Arabs nor the Israelis, has anything to gain from a “Buyuk Turkiye” (Big Turkey”).

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Erdoğan to Putin: Return Crimea to ‘rightful owners’

Turkish leader joins parade of leaders dealing blows to Putin.

September 20, 2022 1:01 pm CET

By Wilhelmine Preussen

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Russian President Vladimir Putin must return all land that Russia has occupied, including Crimea.

The Black Sea peninsula should be returned to its “rightful owners,” Erdoğan told PBS NewsHour on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in comments likely to provoke ire in Moscow.

Asked whether Russia should be allowed to keep Crimea in a negotiated end to the war, Erdoğan said, “These are our descendants at the same time, the people who are living there. If you were to take this step forward, if you could leave us, you would also be relieving the Crimean Tatars and Ukraine as well. That’s what we have always been saying.”