Turkey seems to be ready to lead the mission in Syria. The government has hesitated to take a stand against Assad, when the opposition rallies first started last spring in Syria. At the time, most of the ex-Islamist writers opposed to the idea of confrontation with Syria and defined it as a trap of the imperialists to “divide and rule” the Muslim world.
I spent the weekend in Tehran to attend the “Press Union of the Islamic World” meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to encourage people working in the media from more than 40 Muslim countries and members of Muslim minorities from different countries to join efforts to fight against the hegemony of the Western media.
I hope Turkey is not going to be another victim of Western interests in the region. So far, authoritarian regimes and politics have long been supported by Western countries for various reasons, and there is no reason to believe that nowadays Western policy has changed in this respect.
