The matter doesn’t differ in Libya where Erdogan seeks to stir the Turkish belonging for a number of Libyans, of Ottoman origins, at the time of the Ottoman occupation of the Arab nation.

Let us try to find out the purposes of deploying forces in Libya. Is it a move to claim past Ottoman empire territory? Does it relate to the control of Libyan oil and gas? Does Turkey want to take ...

Ottoman territory from Libya to the imperial capital Constantinople (Istanbul) was threatened by Italian forces. Italy’s seizure of Rhodes and the other nearby Dodecanese Islands in April 1912 ...

From incursions into northern Syria to deeper involvement in Libya, Somalia and Qatar, Turkey has sought to position itself as a dominant regional player. Erdoğan’s neo-Ottoman rhetoric ...