The West kicked Turkish butt at Lepanto in 1571 & at the gates of Vienna in 1683.
The Poles led by Jan Sobieski were conspicuous in the latter.
Looks like Mustafa Kemal Ataturk will soon be denounced as an apostate (he hated Islam).
Erdogan will lead a procession of imams into Hagia Sophia to reinaugurate it as a mosque.
This could become really scary. Turkey has an industrial base & a large land mass, Asia Minor. The Islamic Crescent desired by the Caliphate crowd will have both ends, Turkey & Iran.
“...The Islamic Caliphate (referred to in the Western media as the “Islamic State”) may indeed be a pivotal entity, but perhaps not for the reasons it thinks itself to be. It may be the final provocation which brings Iran to mount its promised vengeance on Turkey, the patron (and not the victim) of the “caliphate”....”