Is the sun setting over Europe, US?

Türkiye continuing with determination to fight against terrorist organizations, and state organizations carrying out proxy wars, indicates the success of its fight against imperialist states. Türkiye’s determination is leading to change in a stable manner not only within but at the regional and global level as well. This is no insignificant evaluation. All developments after July 15, 2016, form significant integrity in relation to one another. We need to see the greatest blow dealt to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), which directly “served” the U.S. and the U.K. within, as the starting point of local and national politics’ emergence. In addition, we need to take into consideration the regional and global results of this incident, which led to radical changes in almost every field. 

One of the most important reasons we focus on the regional and global results as well as the national ones is the fact that the policies the U.S. has been implementing after the 1950s have reached the final stage now. As stated by Francis Shor in his book, “Dying Empire: U.S. Imperialism and Global Resistance," unlike the regional and political control that applies to colonialist hegemony, the U.S. was focused on military interventions. Besides military interventions, proxy terrorist organizations and state organizations displayed a very active position as well. Alongside organizations such as FETO, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and its Syrian wing, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), proxy states such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Armenia, and Greece took direct action as well. Türkiye realizing permanent solutions with the Euphrates Shield Operation caused all balances to change. 

It is quite important that Türkiye reflected its own view on the ground while striving to neutralize the hegemony elements of U.S. imperialism. New concepts such as “Türkiye’s axis,” which emerged after July 15, indicate the permanent results of a new policy. The “Turkiye Century” concept also signals that the new policy cannot be labeled as a discourse. Türkiye is now within a new world with its entirety. When we list the concepts that emerged after July 15, 2016, and which reflect Türkiye’s view, we can see a stable continuity. There is no doubt that concepts such as “Asia Again” also indicate more than Türkiye’s determination. The opinion that a world on the Atlantic axis has come to an end has become widely accepted. In the last century it was said that Asia’s lights are out, now we are seeing signs that the sun is setting in Europe and the U.S. 

It would be wrong to limit the messages given to the whole world at the last Organization of Turkic States summit in Samarkand to the final declaration. For example, the final declaration will naturally not include an event such as the Supreme Order of Imam Bukhari, which left a mark on the summit. Surely it is possible to see the choice of a name that emphasizes the foundations of Turkic and Islamic civilization as an ordinary development. Once you start to decide that Asia’s lights are back on again, the situation will change from head to toe. We can consider the terror event, and all the organizations embracing it as a part of the same metaphor. Then we can ask: Are the structures within fighting their own country because they don’t believe the sun is really setting in Europe and the U.S.? When answering this question, we must take into account the fact that liberal conservatives have taken positions with Europe and the U.S. It is quite clear that it would be wrong to answer the current problem with the experience and history of the Westernization axis. Our Westernization problem had not risen again when the FETO ringleader said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has no chance of winning against the U.K. This was one of the clearest examples showing what U.S. imperialism meant. 

Türkiye’s rising period is dependent on its fight against terrorist organizations and proxy state organizations. Direct confrontation with imperialist states is also an inevitable result. This is thus associated with seeing the dimensions and layers of imperialism. Türkiye never fought so openly in any period against the structures within. We saw this more clearly following the terrorist attack in Taksim. The fact that we are in a period where those positioning themselves with the U.S. and Europe voice their opinions more openly points to a new era of imperialism. The lights rising from the West no longer light the U.S. and Europe’s path. This is why those who are obsessively dependent are so surprised. 

Yet, the sun always rises from the East.