And who is this "top french imam" representing for speaking on behalf of muslims / muslim world then? ... At some point erdolf was a rockstar/the model, for nationalistic muslim youth. I mean it's true he doesn't represent islam nor muslims in general, but that's also only half the story https://abyasun.medium.com/american-muslims-love-affair-with-erdogan-and-icna-convention-b786626448b5 Abdullah Ayasun Jan 12, 2019 >>American Muslims and non-Turkish Muslims around the Middle East and North Africa have, not without reason, a benign view of the Turkish strongman. Majority of Muslims in the U.S. with Middle East background fondly speak of Erdogan. In him, Muslims found a strong leader who pulled off a remarkable economic growth for more than a decade and exhibited a form of governance that upended long-held assumption that Islamist-rooted parties would not effectively run a government. Instead, Erdogan’s government, to its credit, proved itself as adept and competent in successfully governing a country for the long stretch of its time in power. >>The false promise of the Arab Spring and subsequent setbacks, the collapse of functioning state structure in many countries, including Syria, Yemen, Libya and others, perennial economic problems that drive youth into despondency, the chronic corruption and fragile governments offer ample reason for gloom for the Muslims across the region. According to Islamists, Erdogan’s Turkey, for all its flaws and recent crises, stands as an exception in the midst of a chaotic region. Erdogan, a pious ruler in the mold of Muslim Brotherhood, offers a success story for the Muslim youth who hanker for someone to get inspiration. Haunted by their own tragedies and personal memories, Muslims in America unwaveringly cling to this positive portrayal of Erdogan, no matter what Western media and Erdogan’s own critics report about his abuses of power and his incessant power grab. ... What I personally suspect is that 1) Erdolf aims at recreating/emulating the ottoman empire, which implies federating a huge chunk of north africa under his leadership (same shit different day) and invading/penetrating/increase turkey's influence over central/eastern europe and beyond 2) Turkey's role in NATO's happens to overlap this agenda, which implies a bunch of tacit green lights along the way as long as the end game serves NATO's interests https://poal.co/s/geopolitics/209333/4900d9a0-3179-4f74-9114-6745b6847472#cmnts >A key factor in all this too is NATO’s long-term plans to **expand membership of the U.S.-led military alliance in the Caucasus and Central Asia along Russia’s southern periphery**.Political analyst Rick Rozoff comments that the flare up in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is fully consistent with Turkey’s years-long agenda of bringing Azerbaijan into NATO membership. He says that Ankara is trying to force a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute in favor of Azerbaijan whereby the latter reclaims its historic territory from Armenian separatists.For NATO to move forward with absorbing Azerbaijan into the alliance there must be a settlement to the long-running frozen conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The two sides last went to war during 1988-1994 and have had cross-border skirmishes ever since. At the end of last month, the conflict blew up again on account of a recent surge in rhetoric from Azeri leaders and their Turkish patrons about recovering sovereign lands. 3) It also happens to overlap "biblical road maps" aka prophecies >>And in Daniel 11, he prophesied of Antiochus and the Antichrist to cross into Europe and seize Thrace (**Bulgaria**). Antiochus invasion will repeat again when Turkey’s only way into Europe will be through invading **Bulgaria and Serbia** (as the flood of Muslim migrants are already doing) and the Gallipoli Peninsula which constituted the remainder of the geographical region of Thrace. ... >>This enemy is comprised of “Men of Persia [Iran], Lydia [Turkey] and Put [North Africa] served as soldiers in your army.” (Ezekiel 27:10) Bulgaria https://pic8.co/sh/2kOOEA.png Caucasus https://pic8.co/sh/oBcf0V.jpeg Ottoman empire https://pic8.co/sh/CO5sIq.jpeg