What is the secret of Erdogan's strength,
How does he rule, and what is his project?
A broad title with three questions, followed by answers and details, in which the questioner may find a useful explanation about the personality of this fox man who has actually ruled Turkey since 2014 as President of the Republic.
Turkey, ruled by Erdogan, has a population of nearly 85 million, according to the 2020 census. Alawites, Kurds, Shiites and Christians, along with the rest of the minorities, make up more than two-thirds of the aforementioned population, and the rest is made up of Turks, and the rest of the assets that follow the Sunni doctrine and group .
Recep Tayyip Erdogan managed to be a Freemason of Ikhwani descent!
To deceive some of the world, and harmonize between secularism and Islamic fundamentalism, by playing the other nationalities chords with unparalleled intelligence and cunning.
Erdogan is the only Turkish president to offer a public apology to the Alevi Kurds for the massacre committed by the Turkish government between 1937 and 1939 in the province of Dersim, due to the feudal revolt against the government, and the resettlement led by Mr. Reza.
Erdogan's recognition was widely welcomed by the Kurds inside and outside Turkey, so he was contained and attracted to his side.
He also succeeded in winning over the Sunni Kurds,
And the Shiites too, after being allowed to hold Ashura ceremonies, and to practice their religious rites publicly in Istanbul and the rest of the cities in which they are.
Erdogan established himself a broad mass base that pushed him to go towards abolishing the Turkish parliamentary system and transforming it into a presidential one, through a referendum he conducted in 1917 and won it by a narrow majority.
Subsequently, the "Turkey Fox" faced great opposition from the military, which was stalking it, and dealt it a painful blow, the second of its kind in 2016, after the strike of 2013, which overthrew more than 200 officers of various high ranks.
In 2016, Erdogan overthrew all secular military officers, bringing the number of military officers he arrested and charged with attempted coup d'etat to over 20,000, including officers and soldiers, not to mention thousands of civil servants and judges, in the country's largest soft secular purge.
Erdogan tried to secretly Islamize Turkey and abolished Darwin's theory of development in scientific curricula, and converted all school curricula to Islamic, despite his denial of combating secularism.
Erdogan avoided provoking the wrath of Israel, as he preserved the interests of more than thirty thousand Jews, among the wealthiest people in Turkey, who hold the head of the Turkish economy, from the gold industry, tourism, major industries, and media institutions, and brought them close to it and appointed some of them as advisors with the rank of minister.
In order to keep his rule, based on the containment of minorities, by giving them a margin of religious movement that satisfies them, without disturbing them, after containing the most influential Jews in Turkey,
After containing the Kurds, he admitted that his country's government had committed a hundred-year-old massacre.
This recognition did not affect Turkey, and did not result in any international legal issues.
And he showed Turkey internationally with a secular face, in light of the esoteric Islamization that is in full swing.
Internationally: Erdogan dreams of restoring the glories of his ancestors, during the days of the Ottoman Empire, and is trying to expand geographically, towards Central Asia, in which he has a great popular influence, where Russia confronts him with force, to prevent him from restoring the glory of his Ottoman sultan on its borders, and Azerbaijan is a close witness to that.
The limits of this man's ambitions did not stop within the Caucasus, the birthplace of his ancestors, but crossed it into Europe, through Albania and Bosnia, whose country he dreams of being a member of its union.
It is also trying to expand in the Middle East and North Africa region, by entering Libya, as a matter of the ongoing conflict and reaching the borders of Tunisia and Algeria, where Egypt was on the lookout for it, as it drew a bright red line for it, preventing it from crossing it, threatening to invade Libya, and declaring war on Turkey .
Erdogan failed in Libya.
He was defeated in Syria.
He did not dare to announce practical steps in Lebanon, for fear of the reaction of Syria, Iran and Hezbollah.
Tunisia and Algeria confronted him.
Turkey is militarily present, effectively outside the country, in Cyprus, Somalia, Qatar, Iraq and Syria, and has a paramilitary presence in southern Yemen, and in Malian , in order to protect its strategic economic interests outside the country,
And confronting its regional competitors: Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which pose a strategic threat to the current Erdogan regime.
So, the pillars of Erdogan's rule were based on containing minorities, showing the face of secularization, spreading Islamization secretly, eliminating the military force, and establishing strong external alliances, protected from the jewish lobby.