The AKP media, unable to understand Hakan Fidan’s message of “One China, Multipolarity, New Order, Global Disaster Resilient China, BRICS,” responded to Fidan the next day with the headline “China’s Silent Invasion.” Cumhuriyet newspaper’s Mehmet Ali Güler also addressed the situation in his column today.
Read Guler’s article below:
“AKP media did not understand Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan’s message of ‘One China, Multipolarity, New Order, Strong China Against Global Catastrophes, BRICS’ and responded to Fidan the next day with the headline ‘China’s Silent Invasion.’
In other words, they were not reporting on Fidan’s description of China, but on the US’s assessment of China. They responded to Fidan, “That’s not true.”
It is called “Yeni Shafak’s Response to Fidan” or, as stated in the title, “Operation Shafak against Fidan.”
Reflection of Turkish-Islamic synthesis
I wrote about Fidan’s messages in an article titled “Fidan: One China, Multipolar,” and I won’t repeat them. These were very important messages, but whatever happened, the media close to the AKP either did not recognize them or looked at them from a different angle. For example, newspapers such as Yeni Shafak and Sabah ignored Fidan’s headline-worthy Turkish-Chinese messages and ran a small news story titled “East Turkistan” on their front page on June 6th.
However, China’s “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region” is not “East Turkistan” in Turkish official documents or in Fidan’s discourse, just as a region of Turkey is not “North Kurdistan” in Chinese official documents!
They are definitely doing this as a requirement of the People’s Alliance’s Turkish-Islamic integration ideology. But let me say here that this is not nationalism. There is no place called “East Turkistan” today. You can’t base your politics today on what happened deep in history. It would be contradictory to try to do that, because they were the Uighurs who destroyed the Gokturk Khaganate in 744 and drove the Turkic tribes westward.
The Atlanticist Disease
Of course, the censorship of Fidan’s “One China, Multipolar” message is not just due to “East Turkestanism.” Exchanges through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Anadolu Agency before Fidan’s message was made public indicate that the problem is deeper.
From this: Fidan’s message is not only relevant to Turkiye-China relations, but also to Turkiye-Atlantic relations. That is why Fidan’s message upsets Turkey’s Atlanticists. Moreover, both liberals and political Islamists…
For example, Fidan’s BRICS message was interpreted by liberals as follows: “Fidan is not saying he wants to join BRICS, he is saying he is interested.”
The comments from the political Islamist faction were similar to, for example, Yeni Shafak’s June 7 column headlined “It is not true that Turkey, a NATO member state, sees BRICS as an alternative to the EU.”
Respond to Fidan with US claims!
Undoubtedly, East Turkistanism is also a Turkish Atlanticist policy, which is derived from the US’s anti-Chinese East Turkistan policy. In other words, the real reason behind Operation Fidan Shafak is Atlanticism and anti-Chinese sentiment.
For this reason, Yeni Şafak, which censored President Fidan’s “One China, Multipolar” message, published a headline on June 7 entitled “China’s Silent Invasion.” Furthermore, the article lists the claims of US officials who have declared a trade war against China, such as that China is threatening the world economy, that China is quietly and deeply occupying some countries, that Chinese companies are destroying local competitors with a “money-burning” strategy in each country, that they have entered, etc.
In other words, no matter how positive a statement Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan made about China, the very next day Yeni Şafak asserted the opposite, based on US arguments!
In summary, Atlanticists, from liberals to political Islamists, who want to open a “new page” with the United States, are hindering both potentially thriving Turkish-Russian and Turkish-Chinese relations.”
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