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Why Erdogan wants a UN seat for Muslims – Analysis

"The world is bigger than five" has been his dictum over the past several years. He wants to have a veto power, via the UN, over a new world order

Newsroom November 15 03:28

The world’s “strategic eyes” should have looked closer at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speech in September at the UN General Assembly. It was another warning to the West about his intended Islamist design for the entire world — not that he can accomplish this ambition, but what he aims for comes in with several red flags with it.

In his speech, greeted as a brave international challenge by the Turkish media (90% of which he controls), he called on the international community to collectively fight what he thinks is the greatest malady of mankind: Islamophobia. He wants, he said, to revolutionize the post-World War II international political order by giving Muslim nations a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. “The world is bigger than five” has been his dictum over the past several years. He wants Muslim nations, preferably Turkey, to have a veto power, via the UN, over a new world order.

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That is not all. Erdogan wants the world to recognize the breakaway Turkish statelet of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, recognized only by Turkey. That statelet emerged after Turkey’s illegal invasion of Cyprus in 1974.

In his speech, Erdogan discredited the UN peacekeepers on Cyprus. He vowed to fight alongside Azerbaijan against Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute. And, not surprisingly, he asked for global support for the Palestinian cause.

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