Erdogan turns to oil in a bid to salvage Syria policy

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/03/turkey-syria-russia-kurds-sdg-erdogan-putin-deal-syrian-oil.html

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...and what surprises me is that you talk from a superior position; who is the "no one" you speak of: me? And who is the "I" you like to imagine is this person that is "your" identity, different to who else, that you may speak this way?

Speaking as you do, i ask, have you learned any lessons yourself: Lest we Forget? Indeed these men sacrificed themselves in a horrible war so that War would end; that Hatred would be better placed against real enemies, such as Hunger, Ignorance, and Disease.

I hope Erdogan leaves a better world behind, too. And I believe the Cyprus Problem, a solution to it, holds the key to the Problem in general, which has been so intricately linked to it, by Erdogan; that we are not enemies to each other any longer.

These, (e.g. Syria, East Med. Gas Forum, Libya, NATO, EU, Greece) disruptions he makes to the given order are opportunistic to say the least; he has cornered the Treaty of Sevres, in his mind, and he has tossed out the Treaty of Lausanne: but to what end? Having chosen what is past, to defend, the present becomes an inconvenient truth, in his efforts, for "Turkishness", struggling to define it, as the Turkish People.

Thus, this capacity building, as a military-industrial complex, the grand schemes he has realised, becomes a question of who they are built for, (and who will pay), "Turks" or the Turkish People? His legacy survives, in Infamy and in Fame, either way: but he too most pick a side.

Cyprus, with a solution that can be held in high esteem because it can be emulated, as a BBF, opens many opportunities for Constitutional reform in Turkey, what with its Turkish Constituencies, and their state. With a small change in intentions he may move the world to establish an order beyond these Treaties, and the History they represent, to say, One Turkey, one Country, One Cyprus. He may sit as an equal to establish these new frontiers, respecting the Principals established in UNCLOS, which leaves the world, not just Turkey more secure.

...who would he (read: will he) betray? Not the people, the rest of us, those of us not "Turkish"; but "them" and their servant-slaves, in such a case.

...indeed, Erdogan is a religious man; he may yet unite us all as believers in the same God.