In the time of his visit to Egypt, Ahmet Davutoğlu gave a very aspiring expression: “We’ll reconstruct the Middle East with Egypt.”In the past, Davutoğlu had maintained big attempts to be sure that Egypt takes part in the initiatives for the answer of various problems in the region. Particularly, Turkey did best to make Egypt involved in the course of action during its attempts to cease the Gaza war in 2008.
Likewise, Turkey desired to collaborate with Egypt to initiate a course of actions for ceasing the war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006. Merely, under the current conditions, Egypt could not play an active role.
Now, in opposition to what has been stated, Mohamed Morsi, who purposes to make Egypt an active actor just like Turkey, heads the Egypt. And experts on the area are discussing that if Turkey, Egypt and Iran, which are 3 most authoritative countries in this region, may act collectively and sit on the same table; it might be likely to puzzle out a lot of regional problems in a quick way. And now, they’re at such a critical moment that it’s not possible for these countries to go after the same policy.
Now, Iran supports the bleeding Assad regime in Syria. And it executes this with a complete ignorance of religious and ethical values. In addition to this, it’s the greatest political supporter of the Hezbollah regime in Lebanon. Iran is possibly the chief actor behind the deficiency of answers for the troubles between Palestinian groups.
Given these elements, it is a difficult task to talk over territorial issues with Islamic Republic of Iran. All the same, there are no such troubles between Turkey and Egypt. Two countries share the same view regarding all territorial issues including those related to Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. This, of course, calls for collaboration between both countries. The reconstructing of the area is a big project which might traverse many decades.
The area is overabundant with major divergences in religious belief, cultures and social system. As long as these divergences continue unchanged, it’s very improbable that we may go forward to discuss the stability and reconstructing in the area.
However, the region’s two great forces, Turkey and Egypt, might join their forces in a equilibrating act in many regards. The members of the Muslim clergy acted as an actor in putting a cease to the riots regarding a recent film insulting the Prophet of Islam. Particularly, the comments from Turkish and Egyptian clerics acted an important role in containing the responses to the film, “Innocence of Muslims.” They called on Muslims to demonstrate their reactions in a sense that suits Muslims without any harm.
The politicians of two countries did big efforts to cool their respective nations. Both countries don’t have any historical hate or animus; contrarily, they even have close relationship ties.
All these similarities and shared sentiments indicate that Davutoğlu’s intention to rebuild the Middle East in cooperation with Egypt is not unfounded.
