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Neo-Ottomanism was initially born out of a desire to elevate Turkey's international standing and transform the nation from a medium-scale state into a regional and even global power.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkiye’s so-called modern Sultan, emerged victorious in the most nail-biting test to his 20-year rule. Turkiye – once a staunchly secular Muslim nation – braces for another five years of virtual one-man rule with creeping Islamisation, unorthodox economic policies, and an “independent” yet disruptive foreign policy. Despite all the vile things
While neo-Ottomanism as a concept grew sometime in the late 1980s -1990s, to explain Turkey's geopolitical aspirations, some scholars believe that it was also used as a critical term by some of its neighbours, like Greece for instance, with whom it doesn't share amicable relations.
The crisis to elect a president for Iraq still prevails as Turkey exploits weakness and disunity in Iraq in a bid to pass its aspirations in agreement with the Kurdistan Democratic Party to revive Neo-Ottomanism.