Dugins Eurasianism and Turkey
The classical Eurasianism while proposing an alternative to the Western civilisation project had also some suggestions in order to make the Turkish-Slav cooperation possible. Offering an alternative historical mentality instead of Europe-centred historical interpretations that dominated Russia for centuries and considering the oriental influence - especially the Turkish one - in Russia with a positive eye, it proposes a solution for the oriental communities living in Russia at least. According to the Eurasianist thinkers, Russia should reconsider the East, which it used to consider as the "Other" and its philosophy of life in general, in order to get rid of the Western material and spiritual exploitation that it endured for years.
It is supposed that Dugins ideas are also based upon this classical Eurasianism. He put emphasise on the fact that in the Eurasian geography, Russia and the East would cooperate strategically against the American influence. As a matter of fact, Dugin, rather than to formulate an alternative civilisation project to that of the West, offers some keys to Russia to become the ruling power in Eurasia. The very foundation of that movement is the will to break the Atlantic influence on Eurasia. It is also known that at the very beginning, Dugin had considered Turkey as a foe, and only in the last period he changed his mind and thought that actually Turkey would be charged with a key role in the alliance, which will be set up against the United States. Nevertheless Dugins Eurasianism claims that after the collapse of American influence in Eurasia, a multi-polar structure would emerge and that there would be some interest struggles, which will be determined by geopolitics itself. In the middle of the 1990s, Dugin turned to be right noting that the result of the Turkish-Russian fight was determined by geopolitics. From that angle, the Eurasia-centred geopolitical view of Dugin could only envisage a tactical cooperation between Turkey and Russia against the common enemy. According to that view, any other strategic cooperation between these two countries is not possible at all.
It should be kept in mind that whether classical or neo, the Russian Eurasianism is not a movement projected for Eurasian geography, but Russia herself and by Russian thinkers. And Dugins Eurasianism is not other than the continuation of the classical Eurasia philosophy in order to legitimate the new imperialist policy of Russia. For instance, there is no difference at all between Dugin, who used the Eurasianism to justify that the Northern Kazakhstan is a part of the Eastern Russia and Russian nationalists, who simply claim this region. Ditto there is no difference between the Eurasianist Dugin and Jirinowsky, who both are talking about warm seas. - LINK