Ahmet Özcan
The following article is an updated summary of articles the author published in Yarın Magazine in 2004–2005, later included in his book titled Teolojinin Jeopolitiği-Allah-Vatan-Özgürlük.
The New Messiah Against Global Chaos: China Scenario
The financial-capital wing of the global coalition sees conventional powers as its main enemy. Nation states, institutional religions, ‘grand narratives’, in other words, all possible anti-capitalist resistance dynamics are hated by finance capital. Instead of these traditional institutions and doctrines, global finance capital advances by developing its own tools. Instead of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), it leans on NGOs; instead of interstate agreements, on corporate law; instead of national culture, on a global capitalist image culture; instead of national economy, on a transnational fluid money-centered economy; instead of the transcendent essence of religion (Tawhid), on interfaith dialogue (pagan-rooted humanism); instead of public order, on a selfish individual-centered drive of desires. Banks, stock exchanges, media, and NGOs are the main instruments of global capital. This power is currently striving to establish itself, in a striking manner, in India and China. Because it has no loyalty to land, tradition, or societies, it seems to be searching for a new continent to discover. Its internal contradictions with the conventional wing of the U.S. also appear to be the main reason for this search. For the question of who will comprise the upper elite that governs the totality of the component that constitutes the United States, that is, who will be in the final decision-making authority, seems to have forced globalist capital to seek a reserve base. The establishment of the new world order on regional and national states in line with the method of the conventional wing will leave finance capital with new restrictions. Therefore, globalist capital appears to be preparing for a new birth centered in China. (The largest bank in China is owned by Rockefeller. Families that appear Jewish, such as Rockefeller, Rocshild, Morgan, etc., are the symbolical names of Aryan fascism, which, in the modern period, has connected the Jewish party to the Aryans’ door and managed global trade on behalf of the West, as the Ezras of the West (first the Germans, then the British), just like the first Jews led by Ezra, who were brought from the Indian continent by Aryan-Persian colonialism in the 5th century BC and settled in Mesopotamia and assigned to control trade.)
China, in fact, is like America waiting to be discovered in the 15th century, an isolated continent from the world. Maoism, with its ruling elite and economic-political character that has a tradition of contact with the West – with England – deep in its nerve endings, is virtually a closed box. From the perspective of the global capital tradition that has historically governed world trade in contradiction with the conventional powers of the globe under guises such as Phoenicia-Carthage-Venice and the East India Company in the 18th century, China is the most suitable location to turn the global process toward a Pacific axis and open a new page after abandoning the American continent. Financial-capital powers are quietly concentrating in China. Investments directed particularly towards China, high-tech production and closed relations established with finance-capital seem to be building a new super empire in the form of China, that is, in appearance led by Chinese (and Indian) elites but in reality led by global finance-capital barons in the background. In this context, as with all great powers, the image of the U.S. itself is being eroded by instruments controlled by finance capital. For example, the mechanisms that broadcasted the atrocities in Iraq to the world were under the control of this financial power. It is as if finance capital is waging a kind of cold war within the U.S., blackmailing the rival wing.
The global blackmail system, in which the USA, governed by a creature pretending to be crazy, and the Jewish lobby, the American FETÖ, control the ruling elites of all countries with Epstein-like methods, continues unhindered and without alternatives. In this global chaos, the Zionist Israeli terrorist organization, which pretends to be crazy, massacres children in Gaza, and unleashes Mongolian terror, trying to say to every country, ‘We will do the same to you,’ has been seen to have wearied and frightened humanity and conditioned it to seek another savior-messiah. The Jewish party’s war against humanity’s ancient values, both through Israel and with all sorts of blackmail tools at its disposal, further degrades the US in the eyes of humanity and feeds the search for an alternative savior power. Just as the US emerged as a savior after World War II, which drowned the world in blood, and undertook a redemptive mission with liberal values such as freedom, democracy, and development for a world tired of British, French, and German colonialism, China now appears to be quietly and patiently preparing to take the stage with an outlook that promises new technology, economy, and sociality, that is, the possibility of establishing a new world like the US, to save humanity, which has been drowned in blood and tears by American-Jewish termagancy. The Devil, after wearing English, American, Jewish, German, French, and Russian masks, now prepares to take on the Chinese mask in the role of the mahdi-messiah.
It is clear that global Aryan fascism, especially in the Islamic world, will never accept a holistic willpower. The scenarios found in some U.S. future vision reports about the fragmentation of Türkiye, Iran, Iraq, Arabia, Egypt, Syria, etc. belong to global financial power. This power seems to be striving to sabotage the possibility of a ‘new Ottoman,’ and if it fails, to transform it into the Greater Israel Project. The US-Israel coalition, which inherited the chaos process in which Aryan fascism’s Middle East ally Iran destroyed with its Shiite crescent and sowed the seeds of sectarian division, and the massacres of Muslims in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen, is now trying to destroy the embryonic potential of a great Mesopotamian-Mediterranean (Muslim Rome/Ottoman) with the massacres, chaos, and terrorist attacks that began in Gaza and continue. Likewise, the liquidation of Islam as a religion is also part of this power’s program. For the only resistance to the program of global enslavement and the transformation of humanity into herds led by a small minority lies, however scattered, unplanned, and crude, in the Islamic world.
The ultimate goal or natural outcome of these evil operations is that many victims, countries, states, societies, or organizations will bend towards China against this cruelty, while the rest will bow down and become tools of the aggressive power. Just like during the Cold War, for those unwilling to submit to the Anglo-Saxon-Jewish front, a supposedly anti-colonialist and socialist-alternative embrace is being prepared. It seems China will take over the role Russia played for 60 years. ‘The worst is the misuse of the best.’ The evil Aryan order, which for 60 years Westernized half of humanity, destroyed ancient values, destroyed religion and traditional knowledge, erased memories, and voluntarily spread capitalist hegemony to the East, thus completing its global hegemony, under the guise of anti-colonialism, anti-Judaism, anti-Westernism, freedom of peoples, national liberation, and an equal and free world, is now disguised as Chinese half-humans who have not even completed their evolution into humans. Ultra-technologies, fascinating cities; communication, transport, and lifestyle tools as alternatives to the West, weapons challenging the West… the only problem is that there is no attractive ideology, cultural and social alternatives, or spiritual values to replace Russia’s hypocritical religiousism codenamed socialism. Who knows, perhaps the new philosophies of humanity, religion, and life, attractive ideologies, and cultural life codes that will be put on humanity’s agenda starting in the 2030s, as has been the case for the last 500 years, are ready and waiting to be revealed.
Imperial (Universality) Alternative Against New Colonialism
The most real alternative to globalist colonialism is not only anti-colonialism but also developing imperial (universality) alternatives. The term imperial refers to large wholes of multiple nations and religions. In every continent of the world, as all fraternal societies divided and fragmented by colonialism move toward continental or regional integration, imperial alternatives will arise. Latin America, Central America, the Mesopotamia-Mediterranean Basin, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Africa, and the Far East are continental geographies where imperial alternatives may form. The nation-states in these basins could unite in a higher regional state model. The only way to prevent the world from becoming the territory of a single global state or a farm divided among a few major Western united states is for the non-Western world to form closer ties, integrations, and unions among themselves. A system of continental imperial states will form the infrastructure of a multipolar world and be the guarantor of world peace.
Türkiye can take a pioneering role in the integration of the Mesopotamia-Mediterranean Basin. This imperial (universality) politics can be made the foundation and purpose of all other politics, with all domestic and foreign policy decisions expressing its implementation or expansion. In this context, the European Union process is a waste of time for Türkiye. In fact, geoculturally, Türkiye is not European. Indeed, in many cases, Europeanness is an insult and a belittling label for Türkiye. At the Paris Conference of 1856, held after the Crimean War, which was a turning point in the goal of Westernization and dependence on the West, England and France registered the Ottoman Empire as a European state. This registration is actually an ironic demotion for the Ottoman Empire, in the sense that it is reduced from being a different and alternative empire to the level of an ordinary European state. At the end of this process, in which diplomacy dragged on and economic dependency deepened, the Ottoman Empire became the “sick man.” For this reason, Türkiye’s Europeanness identity and the discourse of EU membership still carry tones of humiliation.
Essentially, the reason for the interest in the West since the Ottoman period was the effort not to miss out on technological and social modernization. However, the Tanzimat reform process treated modernization as Westernization and imposed a shell change based on an inferiority complex toward the West. Yet an authentic modernization policy would have enabled the production of the supposed blessings of civilization assumed to exist in the West. Two hundred years later, today, Turkey, like many other non-Western societies, can, with a little effort, reap the fruits of original modernization policies and produce models even more advanced than the West in areas such as an educated population, technological development, urbanization, and so on. The dizzying transformation of the 19th century may have prevented the non-Western world from taking these steps. But today, there is no rational justification for still defending the same goals and style of Westernization from a hundred years ago.
On the other hand, today, dependence on the West is confused with having relations and alliances with the West. The effort to escape dependence on the West does not mean detachment from the world; on the contrary, it means meeting and integrating with the real world. Due to Westernization policy, Türkiye has become unaware of the non-Western world. Even our neighboring countries, with which we shared a provincial status just hundred years ago, are either unknown to us or known only through Western media. The EU membership process contains no novelty other than making this dependency permanent and legal. Freezing or redefining EU membership into a special status is required by Türkiye’s real interests.
The Mesopotamia-Mediterranean Basin expresses the widest borders of the Eastern Roman and Ottoman Empires. By updating these borders, ways of integration can be sought over a broader geography. Energy resources, human resources, accumulated knowledge, human capital capable of producing technology, civilizational dynamics, human values, everything, absolutely everything, exists in this geography. Globalist colonialism is already wandering here to seize them. It presents its own world to the peoples of this region as bright appearances, but in reality, it has for centuries been striving to share the riches of this land. The problem is that the peoples of this region have lost self-confidence. The inferiority complex against the West has created a paralyzed state incapable of solving its own problems. This paralysis and lack of self-confidence can be overcome by organizing a common state representing the voluntary unity of all the peoples of the region, with the asabiyyah of this state. A process of integration to be formed in the region will activate the riches, potentials, and hidden dynamics that colonialism sees and covets, but we have lost.
For example, the Greater Middle East Project was strikingly brought to the agenda based on the exploitation of these potentials. Neo-Ottomanism, Türkiye’s role as a model, the need for change in the region, the power of Islam, the role of synthesis between East and West, the removal of dictatorships, and the establishment of democratic governments, all of these are problems and solutions that every sensible person living in these lands has voiced for decades. Of course, these are accurate assessments, and since they are real needs in our region, they are voiced. What is wrong is that colonialism also pretends to want these things while attempting to implant itself and its agent elites in the region.
In this sense, it should not be forgotten that what was brought to the agenda in the name of the Greater Middle East Project were long-standing goals of all the wise men of this region, and real ways to pursue those goals should be sought. Let no one doubt that a truly great and united Middle East will enable the expulsion of American colonialism from the region. Because this geography is kneaded with the yeast of Islam and the monotheistic Eastern Christianity. That yeast does not serve imperialism. Today there may be some Muslim and Christian elements cooperating with globalist colonialism. But even these elmenents also will tomorrow become parts of the region’s movement by its own dynamics. The fear dynamic we noted at the outset produces intellectual paralysis and immobility in the face of projects like the Greater Middle East Project. Yet confidence and faith are the beginning of everything. The formation of an imperial (universality) regional power and Türkiye’s pioneering role in it is an inevitable process and, ultimately, a profoundly national project.
Türkiye is not obliged to choose between colonialist states. But it should be open to any cooperation that will serve the project of forming an imperial (universality) regional power. In that respect, instead of the EU accession process that stalls and wastes Türkiye’s time, Türkiye should develop only special and limited relations with the EU; for example, a Mediterranean union.
On the other hand, relations with the U.S. can be pursued in a way that moves them from dependency to equality, efforts can be made for the U.S. to withdraw from the region, and options such as Türkiye leaving NATO or transforming NATO into a world police force limited under UN supervision can be considered. Similarly, requesting a veto right at the UN on behalf of the Islamic world, using the OIC presidency for the purpose of mobilizing the Islamic world, would strengthen Türkiye against the U.S. and the EU. Relations with Russia can be considered in the same framework. So long as Türkiye has its own project and policy.
An imperial vision develops by overcoming fear. Türkiye can make moves that abandon the paranoid inferiority and backwardness grounded in its fears.
In this context, when grand projects like Türkiye’s growth, the Ottoman Empire, neo-Ottomanism, and integration with neighbors come up even at the conceptual level, it should not be forgotten that those who react with the rhetoric of “they will dividing Türkiye, first expanding it and then fragmenting it, US-British Ottomanism, etc.” in the name of nationalism, the nation-state, and so on, those who do not attribute an independent, grand, or historical vision to this country and who constantly instill fear, are the same ones who have internalized the self-colonization system, accepted the Sykes-Picot borders as immutable law, and are the guardians of the mines planted between Turks, Kurds, Arabs, and other co-religionists. These elements, speaking Israel’s language, have also vomited Arab hatred through their Islamophobic genes via the refugee issue, inciting the Mongol remnants in Anatolia and the Greek-Jewish apostates under the guise of supposed Turkishness to create a fascist population. Unfortunately, these elements continue inside the state to castrate the historical mission of Turkishness with these fears. The reason why this Kamalist discourse, which is the method of governing real Turks by those who are not originally Turks but call themselves Turks, has become even more aggressive and reckless as its deep operations, which have turned the state into an internal colonial power against the religious, the leftist, and the Kurds, are being disrupted, is that they can easily receive all kinds of support from many powers-the US, Israel, England, France, Russia, and so on-whoever does not want Türkiye to grow, strengthen itself through internal peace, have regional influence, and become a global alternative. Indeed, in the country’s weakest moments, those who usurped the nation’s state and turned the state into a self-colonization regime disguised by the supposed concept of Turkishness, looted the nation’s language, religion, culture, unity, brotherhood, property and presented their newly established sultanate as an eternal, unchangeable, not even to be proposed alternative. The art of ruling by terror was a crime they learned from their masters. Behind the rhetoric “If we are not in power the country will be divided, it will regress, it will become Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, etc.” lies the same arrogance of the false savior posture. Türkiye will discuss and decide its existential and survival issues, as well as its forward-looking horizons and projects, with the organic reason and conscience of the nation, never yielding to the lies of these fraudulent Western agents, fake Turkishness marketers, and corrupted unfaithful scoundrels.
Within this framework, a process of turning inward in domestic politics should be initiated in parallel with this imperial vision.
The first step of this process will be the nation’s repossession of the state. The process of developing a lumpen democracy against tutelary democracy must be ended, and the possibilities of real democracy revealed, that is, the unconditional and unrestricted sovereignty of the people must be established. The measure for this is simple: on all critical issues, the people will speak the first and last word, and everyone absolutely everyone will salute the people’s decision. No institution or power center can speak above the people’s word. All debates and conflicts such as the headscarf, secularism, the Kurdish issue, minority discussions, and permanent foreign policy choices must be resolved by continuously submitting them to the people’s approval, decision, inclination, and supervision. This is the fundamental rule on which the democratic game must be based.
The Western-backed oligarchy produced by the system must be liquidated by confiscating all its economic and bureaucratic power. The state must be reformatted as the embodiment of imperial integration and fully democratized as the representative power of the people. The sole owner of the state is, without distinction, the entirety of the people.
For the imperial integration process, Türkiye must complete its democratic revolution that is, its internal unification, its merging into a nationhood in line with this goal. This imperial reconstruction process can outwardly take its first step with a formula of federation-like integration with Syria and Iraq. Tactical alliances with Iran, federative integration with Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Egypt, Jordan, and Georgia, as well as different alliances and integrations with East Turkestan, Caspian Turkestan, Africa, the Maghreb, and Mediterranean countries, and non-territorial partnerships with Asia and Latin America, can produce variable models of alliance and unity balanced through diverse formulas. Special ties can even be formed with some states of the U.S. and certain European countries. The path to both insuring and deepening national unity and the existence of the nation-state lies in internal and external fortification. A more advanced and developed system of existence and survival must now be built on the internalized reflexes of the Eastern Roman-Seljuk-Ottoman tradition, which are presented as alternatives to each other, and the democratic accumulation of the modern nation-state experience.
These are far more realistic and honorable goals than the thoroughly crippled, so-called U.S.–NATO alliance or the dream of joining the EU. At the very least, they are tried and tested, our own, proven to secure peace, and based on unity and brotherhood. The only obstacle to their realization is that the Westernist line, which considers these goals imaginary but regards dependency relations with the EU and U.S. as realistic, still dominates as the decision-making authority on behalf of the people. The democratic revolution is at the same time a revolution against precisely this Westernist oligarchy’s state. The nation’s state, that is, the state that represents the brotherhood of the peoples of the region, that is, the true state that is the guarantee of the freedom and independence of this country, is currently waiting for the day when it will manifest itself as a willpower hidden in the plough of a farmer in an Anatolian village, in the flute of a shepherd on a mountaintop, in the shop of an old grandfather in the bazaar of a provincial town, in the pages of the Qur’an read by a grandmother living in a slum, in a folk song, in a proverb, in a tale or funny short stories. (In recent years, deliberately exaggerated portrayals of all that is degenerate, corrupted, and immoral in this land, pumping self-hatred (hatred of the people) and disgust, always highlighting the worst while hiding the good, the right, and the beautiful, the propaganda of enemies of the people and the nation, must never be given credit; a foremost sensitivity must be to preserve and protect the willpower that always emphasizes Anatolian wisdom, the spiritual roots of the people, the Abrahamic essence of this land.) The Turk, the Kurd, the Arab, the Circassian, the Georgian, the Albanian, the Bosnian, the Armenian, the Greek, the Yazidi, the Assyrian, the Bulgarian, the Macedonian, the Roman, the Crimean, the Uzbek, the Uighur, the Azeri, the Turkmen, the Kyrgyz, the Kazakh, the Tajik, the Black, the White, the Alevi, the Sunni, the leftist, the rightist, even the non-Islamophobic non-Muslim, all of them, with everything they are, are us, and ‘this heaven is ours, this hell is ours.’ An imperial vision (universality) looks at humanity with the awareness of being ‘the children of Adam, the people of Abraham, the ummah of Muhammad,’ and requires ensuring that instead of each striking at his own demon, all together strike at the common demon. Against Aryan fascism and the semi-simian Chinese-Indian creatures it now invests in to invade the world, building ties with every still-human element among Western peoples through this vision, and striving to create a shared human consciousness, sometimes as the children of Adam, sometimes through the People of the Book, sometimes through monotheist values, must be the most important intellectual effort.
The Mesopotamia-Mediterranean Basin, as a model of continental integration for all oppressed peoples of the world, will sooner or later organize itself into a single country and state. This goal cannot be the work of those with racist, narrow-minded, tribalist, sectarian or Westernist’s mentalities. They have already had their turn and, for 200 years, have offered nothing to these lands but blood, tears, civil war, betrayal, collaboration, slavery, dependency, and an inferiority complex. Now it is the turn of the organic willpower that carries the true spirit of this geography. This willpower is, as expressed in a text of wisdom, “the spirit of fire extinguished in water.” The ember of the Phoenix to be reborn from its ashes is the eye of the Simurgh, which will inevitably reach its goal. This goal is the rebirth of the nation of Abraham, of monotheistic faith, of authentic tradition that is, the rebirth of Adam.
The clock of our destiny* will be able to work in this spirit from the moment it is stopped forward.
* “How far we were from the Tigris
Though we were born so near it
The Tigris, from foams of its lower course
Gave birth to a city; that is Baghdad, your country
Baghdad; this, my brother, is your country
The moon falling on the Tigris and rising again to the earth
Tearing off the mirror, constantly, tearing off the mirror from the sun
From the sun cleft clear and clean by a conquest-sword
Your city, my city and the city of us all
A river’s city that has washed us, soul and body
It has flowed within us night and day without heed
Its body bears traces and spots from the Black Amid fortress
Wounds adorn a tiger’s skin, bright as glass
Wounds of the heart are metaphysical
And a city that gives news
From the heaven that was before heaven was created
I have not seen Baghdad though I so wished to see it
They have deprived us of each other
We have deprived ourselves
ourselves from ourselves
Baghdad’s mortar is the martyrs of Karbala’s blood
The Capital of Islamic Civilization
The peace of Harun al-Rashid
The justice of the Imam A’zam
The eyes of Junayd
The heart of Geylani
And Khalid’s dhikr
The land of One Thousand and One Nights
The truth of a thousand and one days
Fuzûlî’s day
The breath of Layla and Majnun
And nourished by the blood of Hallaj al-Mansur
A people depart from here to an unknown place
Scattering their memories into the ashes of a warm wind
And the messenger says: what became of Baghdad?
Where is the wall and veil that protected it?
The human being live in their opus
Where is the human and where is the opus?
Every fallen stone is my stone
Every ruined house is mine
They’re all falling apart from me
I am being destroyed, I am the ruined one
And the messenger says: I am the ruined one
In stone, in water, in the date palm
In a bird’s throat
In a car tire, in a speck of oil
In every particle the one who dies is me
The dying Baghdad is me
And the messenger says:
I am the burning moon, I am the extinguished day
I am the night that comes when the evening falls
Why did you not understand all of this
O you who turned Baghdad’s golden key to the ash?”
*Sezai Karakoç, from Alınyazısı Saati
Source: Ahmet Özcan, Teolojinin Jeopolitiği: Allah-Vatan-Özgürlük, Yarın Publishing, 2007
