2023-05-30 04:41:28
06:00 GMT, 30 May
The people of Turkey have renewed faith in their president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This is very bad news for the West, according to certain Western media outlets that cannot help but bleed from the wound. And a clear example is the American magazine ‘Newsweek’.
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The West: pain and impotence for Erdogan’s victory?
This Sunday, May 28, Newsweek has published an article that exposes the ardor, the stinging that the re-election of the current Ottoman leader has caused in the West. Under the cheeky headline “Putin Scores Victory in Turkey Election” reads: “Russian President Vladimir Putin secured victory in Turkey’s presidential election results on Sunday.”
The first thing that this headline and its corresponding article makes clear is media manipulation, the propaganda task carried out by the Western press. It also bares one of the many open wounds from which the West bleeds, which always accuses others of all its ills. Of course, one of those evils seems to be Erdogan’s continuance in power. And it is not something that Erdogan precisely ignores. What’s more, the Ottoman leader referred to it in his speech following his victory was officially announced.
Addressing some 320,000 people, Erdogan said of the Western media: “All the traps they have set in the last 10 years, the dirty games, the daggers in the back, everything was to prevent this day. Didn’t German, French and British magazines launch covers to destroy Erdogan? They also lost, ”he shot.
And this post from Newsweek He only accepts these words of the Turkish president for good. Newsweek The blow that Erdogan’s victory represents for the West once morest what would be called Washington’s ‘puppet’ willing to join Western sanctions once morest Russia without delay has not taken well.
Writes Newsweek that “Erdogan’s victory is seen as good news for Putin, and that “Turkey’s actions in NATO have been aligned with Russia’s interests. Turkey has previously blocked offers from Sweden and Finland to join NATO.”
‘Cry over spilled milk’
In a sea of sobs and lamentations, Newsweek writes: “It was unclear how Turkey’s approach to diplomacy would have changed if Kemal Kilicdaroglu had won, recalling that this anti-Erdogan candidate “had sharpened his tone once morest Russia in the weeks leading up to the election, blaming Moscow for alleged election interference aimed at bolstering Erdogan’s campaign.”
So, Newsweek he cites a tweet that Kilicdaroglu posted earlier this May, where he wrote: “Dear Russian friends, you are behind the setups, conspiracies, deepfakes and tapes that were exhibited yesterday in this country. If you want our friendship following May 15, take your hands off the Turkish state. We remain in favor of cooperation and friendship.”
In his greeting to Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin said: “Winning the elections was the natural result of his selfless work as head of the Republic of Turkey, evidence of the Turkish people’s support for his efforts to strengthen state sovereignty and the pursuit of an independent foreign policy”.
And Erdogan also recalled that “in his congratulatory message, Mr. Putin reiterated the question of Turkey, specifically Thrace, becoming a center of [distribución de] gas. We will take this step together with them. Thrace will be the center,” he stated.
Dr. Rolando Dromundo in Gepolitics, observes that “Turkey’s important geostrategic role confirms that there will be a very important economic and energy link between the two countries and that it will not be broken easily. […] This pragmatism is convenient to some extent for both countries. So it shows that the line that Erdogan brings, above all to be independent with respect to the refrain that they give him from Washington.”
Could it be that it is really all this that bothers the West so much, that they would have preferred Erdogan’s defeat?
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