There is no artificial balance: 'It won't happen all at once, it will happen slowly!'

We know the slogans that were chanted for years: “Turkey will not become Iran!” Such things were said a lot.

Not many saw any good come of it. It didn't become Iran, but Islamists took over the state.

No?

In other words, weren't the enlightenment achievements of the republican regime torn to pieces?

Today, we are here: As our hardworking intellectual Orhan Gökdemir, who doesn't swallow lies and doesn't shy away from a fight, puts it: “They killed the Republic, but they just can't seem to hold the funeral!”

This didn't happen all of a sudden, of course.

How, you ask?...

Let's try to enter from here with an example: We agree that Republican Turkey does not resemble other countries in the region, as is well known. It was established as an extension of the European enlightenment and thanks to the winds of a great revolution in the north, and it flourished in communication with it.

Its impact was great.

Time passed. The ties between Iran and Turkey have always caught Europe's attention. They couldn't find an answer, but they asked.

Yet, it wasn't that there was no answer.

For example, years ago, when Khomeini came to power, architect Azer Araslı, who had been continuing her work in Munich since her university years, was asked by her German friends right after the September 12 military coup, “Will Turkey also become like Iran?” Ms. Azer replied, “No, it won't happen here like it did in Iran; here, it will happen slowly!”

And so it happened, “as it were.”

Architect Azer Araslı is the intellectual daughter of a very interesting political family. Firdevs Gümüşoğlu recently published a biographical book about her father, Fuat Araslı: “A Revolutionary Worker in Kars: Journalist Fuat Araslı.” Ms. Azer, who is also the sister of Doğan Araslı, one of the former brilliant names of the CHP who bid farewell to this world early, continues her work by researching historical structures in archaeological sites, including the Munich city center, and publishing studies.

The issue is a bit different today: We have also stated in this column that Iran and Turkey form a line, and that this line must be broken for the “new world order.” If they cannot break Iran, we can think that they will try to reshape the region by entering through Turkey this time, by breaking Turkey.

If the October Revolution and the Second World War have been eliminated with all their consequences, it is not possible for this line and Turkey to be left this way. They cannot leave it.

They will definitely try.

CONSTANT CRISIS AND THE END OF “ARTIFICIAL BALANCE”

This means we will now be in a state of constant crisis. This is a process where all the “artificial balances” of the times—which they constructed by curbing capitalism, partly thanks to the Soviet Union, and when they didn't interfere much with Turkey—have become history. And there is no end to it. There is no balance left.

Either what the founding fathers of a new imperialist world order say will happen, or what those who resist say will happen.

If the major political units on this line we mentioned above maintain their existence and even turn to the left, the backbone of imperialism could shatter. At least here, on the Turkey-Iran line, it could shatter.

Wouldn't this mean the cracking of all regimes, including the European Union?

It would.

The history we have lived through has shown the accuracy of Azer Araslı's assessment from 45 years ago. Therefore, Dr. Fatih Yaşlı, a hardworking and creative writer who reaches his own conclusions from the field research of the younger generation in different areas, is also very right when he reminds us that in Turkey, “sharia will be put into practice de facto, even if not officially declared.”

So, how will Europe view attacks directed at this line?

Ultimately, relationships as intense as the one between Iran and Turkey can also be identified in German-Turkish relations. What about Iran-Germany relations?

In “September 12 - A German Cake,” which I published a long time ago, I stated that the Khomeini regime was established in Iran as a reaction to American imperialism, but I pointed out that the new regime in Tehran continued its relations with other actors of the global imperialist system by intensifying them. The US had been kicked out. However, relations intensified with Federal Germany and Japan were able to keep the Islamist Tehran regime afloat. The US's response, when it was kicked out of Iran, was perhaps to hold a more effective bridgehead in Turkey: the September 12 military coup...

So, is the American imperialism that is declining today capable of financing the dismantling of this entire network of relationships?

It is not.

But they will try.

If this line is not broken, the US will be forced to withdraw from the world's seas and its transcontinental bases/facilities.

Then, if not all at once, they will try slowly.

Ankara's political history over the last half-century shows that they can succeed if they do it this way.

They will break this line, and no capital in Europe, especially the Paris-Berlin line, will object to this.

But what if history repeats itself like 45 years ago, but this time in reverse? That is, what if the reaction to US policies happens slowly and deeply, but becomes very effective?

It is possible. The time for left-wing politicians who can surf on the tsunami has begun.

We are following it.