1184: Erdogan's private army of Neo-Ottomanism. @jonathan_spyer, Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres - a podcast by John Batchelor

Image: Ottoman weapons and armor

 

Jonathan Spyer, @jonathan_spyer, director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents;in re: Turkey’s private militias, many of whom are Syrian and former rebel fighters. Has dispatched them into northern Syria vs the Kurds, then against Haftar in Libya, then in northern Karabakh.   Iran uses its IRGC; Turkey is catching up.  . . .  Advancing neo-Ottoman, post-imperial nationalism.

Lebanon.

 

Jonathan Spyer  is a Middle East analyst, author and journalist specializing in the Levant and Iraq. He is director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis (MECRA), a Research Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Strategy and Security and a Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

https://www.meforum.org/62022/turkey-pakistan-inside-the-ankara-islamabad-axis

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/16/lebanon-lokman-slim-hezbollah-vulnerable/

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/S1o6VXeWu

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1802716

 

 

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