But its keeping Turkey from moving into those former Soviet Central Asian republics. And they will eventually move into Europe, with the help of all the Muslims living there.
“But its keeping Turkey from moving into those former Soviet Central Asian republics. “
The Central Asian republics will never agree to being part of any new “Turkish” Ottoman Empire, nor a Russian empire again. They are quit of having others be over them. They do not even make “Muslim” plans with each other, and they want nothing to do with fundamentalists as in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Their Islam is not fundamentalist and more syncretic with other beliefs in their cultures. That point includes the Uigur in China as well.
Your views are very old school, not up to date.
Definitely true Edrogan wants to try and find a way to nail together a pseudo-Ottoman Empire. Additionally re-connect in some fashion with their ancestral brethren in Central Asia, e.g. Turkmenistan.
Putin’s imperial ambitions are in the way more by accident of history and geography then present-day intention. Russia with a 25% Muslim population is something Putin (and I guess also his successors!) can’t ignore but think they can manage. This bit of foolishness gives China a pot it can stir to further its North & North Central Asia ambitions. I doubt if Third Rome Imperial Orthodox mystic dreams can be spread thin enough to make it work. Then there’s pissing off the West vis-a-vis Ukraine to make it even harder to do.