Why is Erdogan initiating the Islamic NATO alliance now?

Why is failure so much more likely than success? What are the reasons for excluding Islamic Iran?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Saudi Arabia for a short visit and flew from Riyadh to Cairo to hold another summit with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The plan is to establish a political and military Islamic alliance with the three countries as the initial nucleus, to be expanded by including nuclear Pakistan and Indonesia with its vast islands.

At the end of President Erdogan’s visit to Saudi and Egyptian capitals, there was talk of a convergence of views among the three countries on regional issues, particularly the situation in Palestine and the Gaza Strip, and a commitment to expanding cooperation in various fields, especially military, security, and economic.

There are various causes for this abrupt development, which could lead to the creation of “Islamic NATO,” as summarised in the following points:

First: The increasing likelihood of a comprehensive military attack by the US-Israeli pair on Iran, aimed at regime change and the destruction of its military missile capabilities and peaceful nuclear programme, which may be turned into a military nuclear programme.

Second, Israeli military capabilities have reached unprecedented levels and have been used in lethal wars in the Gaza Strip, Iran, and Lebanon to dominate the region and establish Greater Israel.

Third, Israel’s decision to join a three-way alliance against Turkey poses a threat to Ankara and aims to control the Mediterranean basin, including its massive oil and gas resources.

Forming an Islamic “NATO” alliance with these three largest and richest countries in the Islamic world is unquestionably a beneficial idea, but the problem stems from the lack of seriousness of these proposals and their proponents, their confinement to official statements and press conferences, and their dissolution at the first sign of American or Israeli pressure.

Let us go on to state that all of the Arab and Islamic mutual defence treaties that were signed were never executed and remained on paper. In fact, the signing countries transitioned from alliance to military combat and full separation several times and in multiple locations.

There is the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which was founded during an Arab-Islamic summit conference in response to the destruction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the military confrontation with Israel. This organization has evolved into a “charity” in the city of Jeddah, consisting of a group of “bureaucrats” commanded by a secretary-general whose name is only known to a few of his employees who are paid extremely well.

The Arab League and its summit conference treaties, especially the Joint Arab Defence Treaty, have failed to send soldiers or medicine to Gaza for over two years, despite the ongoing genocide and starvation war. So far, the battle has claimed the lives of 75,000 people in the Strip, injured over 200,000 others, and destroyed 95 percent of its buildings.

The same can be said about the Gulf Cooperation Council, which we expected to be a more powerful regional organization due to improved links between its governments and populations as well as greater similarities among its member states. However, this council has deteriorated, and disagreements among the majority of its members have escalated from a severance to military conflict. The Mutual Defence Treaty has not mobilised a single plane or tank to fight Israel’s aggression against one of its member states. We’re talking about Israeli raids on Qatar and the violation of its sovereignty in an attempt to assassinate Hamas officials on its soil.

The vast majority of Arab and Islamic peoples long for the day when their governments will unite under the banner of an “Islamic NATO” or even a new caliphate, reviving the glorious experiences of the past, confronting enemies and their conspiracies, ending their hegemony, and putting an end to wealth extortion and plundering, restoring Islam’s status and dignity.

It is worth noting that President Erdogan’s urgent and necessary tour did not include Iran, the Islamic state against which America and Israel are mobilising fleets and aircraft carriers, with the potential for its destruction and the martyrdom of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of its Muslim population. We hope to learn the reasons.
We want it to be a non-sectarian Islamic alliance with members from all sects and races. The Western NATO alliance is open to all Christians, regardless of denomination. More crucially, it includes a founding Islamic state, Turkey, which contributes to its prosperity and longevity. Why not leverage this experience to overcome the challenges of struggle, division, and discord?

When the countries that will be the nucleus of this new alliance cut their relations with the Israeli occupation state (excluding Saudi Arabia), close their embassies and consulates in their capitals, confront genocide in the occupied sector, and use their oil, gas, and other economic capabilities as leverage against Israel and the Western world, led by America, to activate and respect mutual defence treaties, we can believe and be optimistic about it.

The anti-Turkish tripartite coalition of Israel, Greece, and Cyprus is strengthening and consolidating, whereas the Saudi-Egyptian-Turkish Islamic tripartite alliance remains a foetus in the womb, hostile to seriousness, and a slayer of promising embryos. We hope we’re mistaken.

Why is Erdogan initiating the Islamic NATO alliance now?