Shia: “You bastards! You threw the 11th imam down the well!”
Sunni: “And he ain’t coming back up!”
Good, hopefully they will destroy each other.
Little to no mention of the Kurds, Assad, Damascus, Israel, Iraq or Russia
Not much mention of NATO and its future influence on and usefulness to Erdogan
Nor of how Irans nuclear program is going to affect its relations in the region
Lots missing in this analysis
There are other possibilities based on shifting loyalties.
Turkey and Persia both hate Saudi Arabia. Turkey and Iran imams both have Sufi influence.
They could get together to wipe out SA and other Gulf States.
We will see a revived Ottoman Empire that will be a formidable force of End Times power.
This is true, and sweet
I hate to tell he well respected Mr Pipes, but geopolitics always can make for strange bedfellows, even if very, very, very long term rivalries are put on the back burner for more immediate concerns.
Just lask week Erdogan was in Iran signing a military cooperation agreement with Iran, where billions in military trade will be exchanged.
What do Iran and Turkey have in common at the moment? Growing moves beyond Iraq for more Kurdish independence.
Iran and Turkey WILL BE joining forces to stem Kurish ambitions beyond Iraq and trying to keep it contained as no more than a region within the political borders of Iraq, and not as an independent state formerly part of Iraq. They will both independently and together go as far as they can to achieve those goals; goals Turkey and Iran share.