India Received 5 Rafale Jets From France - India China Tension - Hammer Missiles - Rafale Escaped Iranian Missiles

After the arrival of 5 fighter jets in Rafale India, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the Indian Air Force and said that the strength of the Air Force has been increased at the right time and they should be concerned about those who are a threat to India's territorial integrity. ۔ Rafale, one of the world's most advanced fighter jets, was added to the Indian Air Force at Ambala air base. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh wrote in a tweet that he was grateful to the French government and Dassault Aviation for the timely delivery of Raphael planes and weapons. France did not delay delivery despite the epidemic. Earlier, a tweet from the Indian Defense Minister's Office said, "Birds have entered Indian airspace. Congratulations on landing at Ambala." "Apart from the tremendous flight capability of these planes, the weapons in them do not miss the target," he wrote. Their radar, sensors and electronic power are among the best in the world. "With the arrival of Rafale, the Indian Air Force will be ready to face any challenge," he said. "If anyone thinks or criticizes this new capability, it is those who intend to jeopardize our territorial integrity," he wrote. The Indian Air Force has also welcomed the Raphael planes by tweeting. In this context, the inclusion of French-made Rafale aircraft is being given great importance. This is probably the first time in India that any military equipment is being seen not in the context of Pakistan but in the context of China in particular. Defense experts are describing the Raphael fighter as a game changer. He believes that the inclusion of these aircraft has given India the lead over China in attacking high-altitude airfields. Experts also believe that the missiles and bombs installed in this aircraft have an extraordinary ability to hit the target, which makes it unique.

Border dispute between China and India has not cooled down yet, Indian Defense Minister started speaking out against China as soon as he received 5 Rafale jets from France.

Five Rafale jets were delivered to India from France yesterday, after which the Indian Defense Minister started threatening China.

According to details, the border dispute between China and India has not cooled down yet, and the Indian Defense Minister has started speaking out against China as soon as he received 5 Rafale jets from France.

The first consignment of five Rafale jets arrived at the Indian airbase yesterday after an agreement was reached with France to buy millions of dollars worth of Raphael jets. "This is the beginning of a new era in our military history. These jets will further strengthen the Indian Air Force and help the country deal with any threat," he said.

According to Indian media, India is also signing hammer missiles with France after the agreements of Raphael planes. It is using the given emergency powers and it is believed that the agreement is being made in the context of the recent tensions with China.

Border tensions between India and China have been simmering in eastern Ladakh for months, with Indian government officials claiming that France has assured them that the missiles will be handed over to India soon and another. The missiles developed for the country will be delivered to India on an emergency basis.

According to Safran Electronics & Defense, a company that manufactures hammer missiles, hammer missiles can be used easily from a distance, while the guidance kit on the front of the missile is fitted with technologies such as GPS, infrared and laser. Capable of destroying bunkers and other installations along difficult routes in the area.

Furthermore, India's Rafale planes narrowly escaped Iranian missiles. According to details, India's new Rafale planes, which landed at Al-Zafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates, narrowly escaped being hit by Iranian missiles. The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a U.S. military base. The BBC reported that the missile was fired by Iranian forces during an ongoing war games in the Gulf.

Is Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan Preparing for the Revival of Ottoman Empire?

Friday Pryaer in Hagia Sofia after 86 Years

After 86 years, Friday prayers have been offered today in the famous Hagia Sofia of Istanbul, Turkey.  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has attended the Friday prayers in Hagia Sofia.  The Imam of #HagiaSofia held the sword of Sultan Muhammmad Fateh in his hand and delivered the Friday sermon.

Apart from them, about one and a half thousand worshipers including other dignitaries of Turkey will also offer Friday prayers.

According to Turkish media, President Tayyip Erdogan used his sovereign right to turn Hagia Sofia into a mosque. Erdogan warned the West that criticism of Sofia's move would be considered an attack on our freedom.

It should be noted that on the 10th of July, 2020 the court had ordered to remove the status of the historic Hagia Sofia Museum.

History of Hagia Sofia

The 1500-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Site was originally a church before the Hagia Sofia Mosque. It was turned into a museum by Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the founder of modern Turkey, in the 1930s, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to build a mosque last year. 

However, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's first Nobel laureate in literature, said about converting Hagia Sofia into a mosque that Turkey should not have done.  "I am angry. I was very proud that Turkey is the only Muslim country that is secular but now secularism is being eradicated here," he said. Kamal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, made the important decision to turn Hagia Sofia from a mosque into a museum. By doing so, he tried to tell the whole world that we are secular and separate from other Muslim countries. We are like European nations and modern, so accept us too.

The War of Leadership in the Islamic World

King Abdullah Bin Saud of Saudi Arabia was beheaded in 1818, right in front of the Hagia Sofia Museum in Istanbul, which has recently been converted into a mosque by the country's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 

The soldiers of the Ottoman Empire brought King Abdullah Bin Saud and The Wahhabi Imam in chains to Istanbul.

While Abdullah was being beheaded, a large crowd was celebrating outside Hagia Sofia. Abdullah's decapitated body kept outside Hagia Sofia for three days.

Meanwhile, Ottoman troops invaded the suburbs of the then-Saudi capital, Diriya, and Riyadh.  In 1924, the Ottoman Empire collapsed to modern Turkey, and modern Turkey considers the Ottoman Empire its glorious history. 

Saudi Arabia will hardly forget its horrific history with Turkey. AK Pasha, a professor of Middle East affairs at JNU, says that when Saudi Arabia looks at its history, it first remembers the Ottoman Empire. 

The Ottomans always considered the Saudis a rude tribe, although Saudi Arabia has Mecca and Medina, both of which have been under Ottoman rule.

The current rulers of Saudi Arabia, 84-year-old Shah Salman and 34-year-old Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, belong to the same family as Abdullah Bin Saud, who was beheaded in front of Hagia Sofia.  Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are both Sunni Muslim countries, but both have a history of bloodshed twice before 1932, the first was in 1818 and the second in 1871.  Saudi Arabia's third attempt succeeded when it backed Britain in World War I and the Ottoman Empire faced it.  Now, once again, Turkish President Erdogan is trying to revive the Ottoman Empire's past, the latest example being Hagia Sofia.  Saudi Arabia and Turkey are both Sunni-Majority Muslim countries, but both have very bloody histories. 

President Erdogan has repeatedly said that Turkey is the only country that can lead the Islamic world. Obviously, when Erdogan says this, he will have in mind the legacy of the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire was larger than the Soviet Union. It was spread over 22 million square kilometers. The Ottoman Empire extended to Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Hungary, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, most of Arabia, and most of the coastal areas of North Africa.

This empire valued Muslim rulers and Muslim practices. Erdogan thinks and rightly thinks that it is Turkey's historic right to lead the Islamic world.

The Ottoman Empire, founded around 1299, ended with World War I in 1923 and became modern Turkey.

Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, feels it owns the Islamic holy sites of Mecca and Medina, which are subordinate to the House of Saud, and attract more than 2 million Muslims from around the world each year. In such a situation, only he can lead the Islamic world.

The third player is Iran, where Shiites are Muslims. Iran also knows it cannot lead a Sunni-majority Islamic world, but it does not mind that two major regional rivals are pitted against each other. The reaction of Western countries to the confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Turkey is interesting for Iran.

Although Saudi Arabia succeeded in becoming a country for the third time in 1932 with the help of Britain, its difficulties are still not small.

"There is a war of leadership between Saudi Arabia and Turkey in the Islamic world, but Saudi Arabia cannot win this war at the behest of the United States," he said. Saudi Arabia's oil is no longer viable and oil needs are changing and alternative energy sources are on the rise. In that sense, it is possible America did not last long.

Is Turkey a threat to Saudi Arabia?

Erdogan was with the United States during the US invasion of Iraq.  Erdogan's Islamic nationalism and the strategy to stop Saudi Arabia go hand in hand. Erdogan repeatedly tried to stop Saudi Arabia. They sent troops to protect Qatar against the Saudis, drove Saudi allies out of Somalia, and agreed to lease an island to build a military base in the Red Sea.

At the same time, Erdogan speaks out about Palestine and the Rohingya Muslims. Istanbul has become a favorite stronghold of rebels in the Arab world.

Soner Cagaptay, a scholar at the Washington Institute, has written a biography of Erdogan called The New Sultan.

In this biography, he wrote: “The goal of the Turkish president's foreign policy strategy is to bring back the sense of pride of being a Muslim. They want to bring a modern form of the Ottoman Empire so that Turkey can become the leader of Islamic greatness.”

Erdogan's desire has a long history. The Sultan of Turkey has been the caliph of the entire Islamic world for four centuries. His religious leadership was also acknowledged by Islamic powers outside the Ottoman Empire. In World War I, there was a revolt against the Ottoman Empire in Arabia with the help of Britain, after which Mecca and Medina fell out of its hands. Six years later, in 1924, the Khilafah system came to an end.

Madawi-al-Rasheed, a Saudi Arabian professor at the London School of Economics and a historian of Saudi Arabia, told the Wall Street Journal that Erdogan's new Turkey is a challenge to Saudi Arabia because it presents an alternative Islamic model.  "It threatens the very existence of Saudi Arabia because Turkey is both Islamic and democratic. Despite all this, it is a fact that Erdogan is ruling a republic with a parliament, an opposition and a civil society, but not in Saudi Arabia.”

Last year, a meeting was held in Kuala Lumpur challenging the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which was dominated by Saudi Arabia, with strong participation from Iran, Turkey and Malaysia, but Saudi allies prevented Pakistan from attending.

Erdogan wants to make his mark by challenging Saudi domination.  He feels that the OIC is not the voice of Islamic countries but a means of fulfilling Saudi discretion. Erdogan is trying to form an organization parallel to the OIC.

Erdogan in Ataturk's Turkey

Erdogan became Istanbul's first Islamic conservative mayor in 1994. Erdogan's speeches have been discussed at most meetings since then. In his meetings, he often repeated the statement of Turkish nationalist thinker Muhammad Ziya Gokalp that "mosques are our cantonments, domes are our protective shields, minarets are our swords and followers of Islam are our soldiers."

But the irony is that the US invasion of Iraq killed thousands of followers of Islam, destroyed mosques, demolished minarets, and was with Erdogan in the war.

Islamic politics has played a key role in Erdogan's rise to prominence in Turkish politics. From his speeches, Muslims may think that he is talking about the protection of religion and the interests of Islam, but at the same time there are many contradictions.

When Erdogan became Turkey's prime minister in 2003, the United States was preparing to invade Iraq. Erdogan's relationship with Saddam Hussein was not good.  He even made up his mind to allow the United States to use Turkish territory in the war against Iraq. However, Erdogan's intention was not fulfilled as the proposal was rejected by three votes in parliament.

Erdogan told the New York Times after becoming Turkey's first prime minister in 2003 "I am a Muslim before anything happens and as a Muslim, I practice my religion and this is my duty and I will continue to strive to fulfill this duty and responsibility.

Erdogan sent his daughters to Indiana University for education because they could wear the hijab there.

Kamal Ataturk, who replaced the Ottoman Empire and founded modern Turkey, rejected traditional Islam.  Their goal was to make Turkey a modern European country. Ataturk dismissed the Islamic caliphs, abolished religious courts, and secularized schools. Ataturk abandoned the Arabic alphabet and adopted the Roman alphabet for Turkey. Ataturk enforced the Swiss Civil Code in the Republic of Turkey and gave women the right to vote.  It was unthinkable that any president of Ataturk's country would ask Muslims to reject family planning.

In a speech in Istanbul in 2016, Erdogan said, "It is the responsibility of women to keep the Turkish population fit. We need to increase the number of our children. People talk about population reduction and family planning but a Muslim cannot accept it. That is what our Allah and Prophet said and we will follow this path.  Turkey currently has a total population of 82 million.

Turkish TV drama "Dirilis Ertugrul"

The TV series, based on the founding of the Ottoman Empire, was aired on Turkish state TV TRT-I. It has five seasons and a total of 448 episodes.

Ertugrul is banned in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates

In the first season, there is a campaign against the Crusaders in Anatolia. The second is the fight against the Mongols, the third is the fight against the Christian Byzantines. The fourth series is a battle between the Seljuks and then the formation of the Ottomans.

Western media say that Turkey's national mood can be understood from the popular TV show of the time.

A few years ago, a TV drama was made in Turkey called The Magnificent Century on the life of Sultan Suleiman. In the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was at its height under Sultan Suleiman, and this is what is shown in this play. The drama was a huge success in Turkey.

Since Erdogan's party came to power in 2002, television series have become the best source of income in Turkey. In 2017, more than 100 Turkish plays were sold in more than 150 countries.

In 2016, the annual export of Turkish TV dramas reached 300 million. According to a report by the Turkish International Agency, it reached 350 million in 2017.

It is said to reach one billion by 2023. The popularity of Turkish TV dramas also increased the number of foreign tourists there.

Since Erdogan's party came to power in 2002, television series in Turkey have become the best source of income from abroad.

There was also a cultural movement in Turkey regarding Ertugrul. Religious conservatives strongly supported it, while the secular class slammed it.

At an awards ceremony in November 2016, the presenter made fun of the series and did not allow its characters to speak after receiving the award. After which his scriptwriter returned the award calling it an insult. President Erdogan also joined in the affair and praised the drama.

"Until the lion begins to write its own history, its predators will continue to be made heroes," Erdogan said.

Why is Ertugrul criticized?

The play's director and author, Mehmet Bozdakh, says the facts are not important.

As for how the play has stood the test of time, Mehmet Bezdakh said: "There is very little information about the period of Anatolia that is depicted in this play. Complete information does not exceed four to five pages. Even everyone's names are different in different sources. We cannot claim to compete with historical facts. We have shown a fictional story. "

Ertugrul: If you say in three words, these three words can be Islam, horse top and sword.

There was also a cultural movement in Turkey regarding Ertugrul. Religious conservatives strongly supported it, while the secular class slammed it.

It tries to show that Ertugrul is on the path of Allah and to follow it is to follow the command of Allah.

Ertugrul Uthman was the 45th head of the Ottoman Empire and the grandson of Abdul Hamid II, who ruled the empire from 1876 to 1909. If the Ottoman Empire had not been overthrown or reconstituted in 1923, Ertugrul Uthman would have been the new sultan of the empire.

In Pakistan, the TV drama 'Ertugrul' broke all old records of popularity

But becoming a Sultan is a long way off. Ertugrul Uthman spent 64 years of his life in a two-bedroom flat in Manhattan, New York. This flat was also rented.

In 2006, the New York Times asked Ertugrul Othman if he wanted the Ottoman Empire restored. In response to this question, he said, "I am a very practical person."

 

In an interview with Al Jazeera in 2008, he said that democracy is doing very well in Turkey.

Ertugrul Uthman refused to say anything against Mustafa Kemal Pasha Ataturk, who ousted the last ruler of the Ottoman Empire.

When the Ottoman Empire came to an end, Ertugrul Uthman was 12 years old. In 1924, the royal family was deported by Ataturk. Uthman said in his interview that the men of the family were given one day for deportation and the women two weeks.

Ertugrul Uthman was educated in Vienna and moved to the United States in 1939. He arrived in Turkey 53 years later in August 1992 at the invitation of the Prime Minister.

During the visit, he also visited Dolambache Palace. It is a 285-room palace that used to be his grandfather's house. Ertugrul Uthman passed away on September 23, 2009 at the age of 97.

Zainab, the wife of Ertugrul Uthman, was the niece of King Amanullah of Afghanistan. She was 30 years younger than Zainab Uthman.

Talmiz Ahmed says that this is not a matter of a TV drama. "There was a time when large parts of the world were ruled by Muslims," ​​he says. The Mughal Empire in India and the Ottoman Empire in a large part of the world. The Mughals and the Ottomans ruled over a vast area and their power was unparalleled. The Mughals fell in the 19th century and the Ottomans in the 20th century.

"These empires were seen as close to Islamic pride and success," he says. The defeat of the Islamic world has not ended since the end of the Ottoman Empire in the twentieth century. This is still going on. The Turkish TV drama portrays the Ottoman Empire as an Islamic pride and achievement.

In Pakistan, the TV drama 'Ertugrul' broke all records in terms of viewers. On April 18 this year, PTV dubbed the drama into Urdu and created a YouTube channel with more than 6.2 million subscribers. Imran Khan himself appealed to the people to watch this drama.

President Erdogan and Prime Minister Imran Khan

When Turkish President Erdogan visited Pakistan in February this year, Prime Minister Imran Khan proudly told a joint press conference that the Turks had ruled India for hundreds of years.

Erdogan not only wants to lead the Islamic world, but is trying to make it clear that Islam is the best religion.

Imran Khan said, "We are all happy with your arrival because the nation understands that our relations with Turkey are centuries old." The Turks ruled India for six hundred years.

Zia-ul-Haq, the military dictator who ruled Pakistan in the 1980s, had said, “Pakistan is an ideological state. If you take Islam out of Pakistan and make it a secular state, it will fall apart.

Imran Khan's appeal to watch a TV drama about the Ottoman Empire is part of the Pakistani rulers' attempt to find their own identity.

Turkish leaders are trying to shine the thinking of people through the glorious past of Islam and to revive the Ottoman Empire.  But most people think that even if they mobilize their supporters through this drama, they will not be able to revive the Ottoman Empire.  Let’s see, time will tell us.