ERDOGAN’s ASPIRATIONS : LOOK FORWARD TO 2071
MESOP TODAY’S QUOTATION
“Those who worry about such an outcome find a portent in Erdogan’s remarks—well noted in Turkey but not elsewhere—at his party’s recent Congress. There, Erdogan urged the youth of Turkey to look not only to 2023, but to 2071 as well.
This is a date that is unlikely to be meaningful for Westerners, but is evocative for many Turks. 2071 will mark one thousand years since the Battle of Manzikert. There, the Seljuk Turks—a tribe originally from Central Asia—decisively defeated the leading Christian power of that era, the Byzantine Empire, and thereby stunned the medieval world.”
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/erdogan%E2%80%99s-grand-vision-rise-and-decline