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Empire of Blood ... New Book Reveals Dimensions of Turkish Role in Arab Region


Wed 05 Aug 2020 | 03:35 PM
Ahmad El-Assasy

The series of Kitab Al Youm series published by Akhbar El Yom revealed recently a new book entitled, "The Empire of Blood."

The book expresses the reality of the Turkish Presence in the Arab Region.

It was written by researcher Osama Alsaeid, Deputy Editor In Chief at Al Akhbar Daily Newspaper, director of Akhbar Al-Youm Center for training and consulting.

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The book includes 10 chapters dealing with the history of the Turkish presence in the Arab region over five centuries. It discusses the period since the Ottoman invasion of the region in 1516, and the implications of that date that are still extended to today, according to the writer.

Alsaeid said in his book: "The region is witnessing Turkish moves to seize the lands and wealth of many Arab countries. It is nothing but an attempt to revive the old Ottoman project under the umbrella of the “New Ottoman.”

The book explains that Erdogan's position and his insistence on strengthening cooperation with Israel is only an extension of a long history of intimate relations between the Turks and the Israelis.

Turkey was the second Muslim-majority country to recognize the Zionist state, in 1949, in addition to Turkey's bias in relations with Israel at the expense of relations Arabic, according to the book.

The book also reveals the truth of the Ottoman collusion with the Zionist movement and the involvement of the High Gate in selling the lands on which the Zionist movement built many of the first settlements on the Palestinian lands.

The writer reviewed in more than one place in the book the nature of the relationship between Turkey and Egypt through different historical stages.

He reviewed how Egypt was a permanent target for conspiracy by the Turks, mentioning the Turkish attempt to eliminate the Egyptian role in the region, or at least marginalize it, by conspiring in different ways against Egypt and obliterating its national character.

The book also reveals many facts about the fundamental differences between the Turkish project adopted by Erdogan's regime, and the Egyptian project embodied by the June 30 revolution.

It expresses how each of them views the region and the basic political constants in a completely different view, and that Turkey is in a hurry to clash with Egypt because it realizes that the restoration Egypt for its regional role strongly, represents the main obstacle to the implementation of the new Ottoman project.

The book deals with a review of many facts that represent important lighting for the course of contemporary events.

It mentioned the Turkish role in the conspiracy against Egypt in the issue of the Nile waters since 1958.

It also dealt with the Turkish role in supporting the refusal to fund the construction of Aswan High Dam, passing through conspiracy with Ethiopia at the time to deprive Egypt of water the Nile River, up to the current Turkish cooperation with Addis Ababa to create the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

It is a Turkish attempt to deprive Egypt of the water of the Nile ٌRiver. That is what Turkey did in the dam projects on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to control the lives of Syria and Iraq.

Alsaeid said that the book is full of historical facts and their repercussions on the ground, especially the facts of Turkish historical practices in bloodletting Arab blood and draining their wealth, and sacrificing them in its losing adventures on the international scene.

He added that the book includes how Erdogan today restores these bloody historical practices in our Arab countries, under the guise of the new Ottoman.

Alsaeid explained that he wanted the book to be an attempt to restore awareness and recall history to understand some facts of reality, to know the truth of the battle taking place on our Arab land and the dimensions of the abyss that they want the region to slide into.

The "Empire of Blood" is the tenth edition of Dr. Alsaeid, who previously published many literary, intellectual, and political works. He received many literary awards, including the Sharjah Prize for Creativity in the field of the novel, and the Ihsan Abdul Quddros Prize for the novel, in addition to winning twice the awards of journalistic excellence from the press syndicate.