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The double protest of European foreign policy: European leaders face history
The Hispanic American philosopher George Santayana when he pronounced the famous saying «Anyone who does not remember their past is doomed to relive it» He probably did not have in mind that this view would remain unchanged over time, largely shaping modern geopolitical balances.
Even more so when the historical connection refers to the same geographical area of the Eastern Mediterranean, possibly covering the eastern corner of Europe. The comparison of the period before the Fall of the City with the Ottomans who threatened to flood the European continent with the current situation that Turkey wants to shape with its revisionist aspirations that acquire “flesh and bones” through the Blue Homeland (Mavi Vatan), it becomes inevitable.
The associations from the mid-15th century to the modern period many and discernible even by the most ignorant scholar in world history. The revisionist aspirations of the Ottoman Empire and its Sultan of Muhammad, As much as Western European reluctance to help prevent the occupation of the city, composed a scene that if not identified, if something it seems that Against the backdrop you try to forcefully put or President Erdogan the current time period.
The threat they posed to the then civilized world barbarian hordes from the depths of Asia did not awaken the European leaders, that, as a result, he seems to have erroneously assumed that the newly formed Ottoman Empire could not break through the greatness of Constantinople and topple its hitherto impregnable walls, much less threaten the rest of Europe. Subsequent events, however, bitterly refuted them, when the Ottomans in less than a century spread across Eastern Europe, reaching beyond the walls of Vienna, which they relentlessly besieged before leaving idle. One can imagine what the fate of Europe would have been if the Viennese had fallen under Ottoman siege!
And in the modern era, Erdogan may not be directly threatening the “heart” of Europe, like Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in Vienna., but in practice it disputes the sovereign rights of two states that belong to Europe and are part of the family of states called the European Union, our country and Cyprus.
Further, Turkey’s economic, political and often religious penetration into the Balkans is as undeniable as the tight control and orientation of minorities of Turkish origin. who emigrated and live in Central and Northern European countries, such as Germany and Belgium. These minorities may instrumentalize the promotion of their political interests causing general instability, as evidenced by the recent tragic episodes with the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad and the consequent vandalism of monuments to the Armenian genocide. The “lukewarm” reaction of European leaders to the Turkish beatings, which reveals the indecision and perhaps the reluctance of Europe to put the Turkish government in its place and carry it to its responsibilities, is strongly reminiscent of the “hard” times of the Byzantine Empire., when with the Ottomans of Muhammad tightening the noose around the walls of the Queen, the embassies of Emperor Constantine XI in all directions fell into the void receiving only hollow and unfulfilled promises.
And sadly, the Europeans not only did not help the Byzantine Empire collapse, but some of them rushed to help their mortal adversary. A “special” place in history certainly occupies Urban, a gunsmith of Hungarian descent, who with his own ingenious cannons helped Muhammad as much as anyone else in dismantling the city walls that had hitherto withstood countless enemy sieges. Let’s hope that at the next December Summit, and given Turkish criminal actions, which not only do not reduce the escalation but further energize the climate in the region as a whole, other “modern urbanites” will not appear, whose actions will alter its cohesion. European Union, such as the Urban canyons, the City walls, intimidating and giving extra political and diplomatic space to neo-Sultan Erdogan and his grandiose plans.
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