Saturday, December 24, 2016

Political Chaos In Middle East And Peace In Turkey

From 2011 the beganing of Arab Spring many countries are suffering from internal bloody conflicts and external attack. From Tunisia to Yemen all countries are burning due to Arab spring. Libya, Syria, Iraq and Yemen are main sufferer of this political change.

                              Although Turkey and Iran are strongly associated with Arab countries but there was not a chance of rebellion in these countries because reforms adopted by Atatürk in Turkey and Islamic revolution of 1979 in Iran were the forefathers of Arab spring. Turkey and Iran remain safe also due to liberal attitude of their governments. Turkey is a secular democracy and Iran is a Islamic Republic with terms and conditions.
                            Many people were expecting a change in Saudi Arabia but except some small protests nothing happen. When Arab Spring was at its peak and there was a big possibility of civil war in Saudi Arabia, at that time Saudi leadership uses their old trick to demolish the possibility of disturbance. They grant huge subsidies of 350 billion Dollars to their citizens. This is how Saudi Royal Family have manages peace in their country wisely.
                                                   Arab spring become worst political crises in the history of Arab countries, specially where Sunni and Shias were sharing the demographic. Syria,Iraq and Yemen become battle field of Shia and Sunni allies of Islamic world. On one side Shia countries Syria,Iraq and Lebanon lead by Iran and Many Sunni countries leaded by Saudi Arabia. Iran started supplies weapons to Shia governments and rebels of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. On the behalf of Shiite solidarity Shia group Hezbollah directly involved into war from the side of Shias. On other had Saudi Arabia and his allies like Bahrain, UAE and Sudan started supporting Rebels and Sunni leadership of Yemen.
                                     In this whole chaos Turkey was silent but when ISIS and Kurd militia start attacking border areas of Turkey and planing bomb attacks in Istanbul and Ankara, Recep Tyyeb Erdogan feel worried because a big disturbance was at their door. From December 2015 Turkish military have started operations against ISIS and Kurd rebels. Previous month ISIS terrorists kidnapped two Turk soldiers and after few days video of their alive burning was sent to Erdogan. Surely this was an issue of worrying for Turkey and its leaders. On other hand Kurd militia trained and armed by Israel is also performing acts of threat for Turkey. In this hard situation it is very difficult for  Turkey to stay in peace without direct involvement in Syria.
                           Except ISIS and Kurd militia foreign policy of Iran is also dangerous for existence of Turkey. Iran is involved in Syria through Asad regime and Hezbollah. Massacre of Sunnis in Aleppo and other cities is emotionally painful for common people of Turkey.
                                              Future of Syria conflict is going to directly effect Turkey. Policies of Iran, US and Russia can also give new direction to crises in Middle East.

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