Since the AKP came to power in 2002 with the aim of “Moderate/Harmonious Islam” and the Greater Middle East Project projects, Ottomanism has been pumped out from the US Consulate General in İstinye.

What the Neoconservative-Zionist-Evangelicals, led by the Bush-Cheney junta, (re)discovered in opposition to Atatürk and the Republic was Ottomanism.

They blended this neo-Ottoman concept with the Greater Middle East Project (GDP) and synthesized it for their own interests.

It was extensively used in their adventures in Iraq, Libya, and Syria.

It was also a useful concept in domestic politics. It internalized outdated concepts like Conquest, Palace, Caliphate, and Ummah.

TRT commissioned numerous TV series. Ottoman Hearths were established. Congregations and religious orders, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood and FETÖ, were given free rein. They established “madrasas.” Arabs were glorified under the pretext of Ottomanism and Islamism. Judaism and Christianity were also not spared from being slaughtered at the feet of “tolerance.”

Atatürk, the Republic, and Turkishness were denigrated in every possible way, both overtly and covertly.

You know this as well as I do.

Europeans now have their sights set on Turkey as cheap blood in the war with Russia. They have inherited Ottoman gas from the US.

The latest “lubrication” came from Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, the new NATO sacrificial lamb, who met with Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Helsinki.

At the end of the bilateral meeting, Valtonen explained her reason for sending Fidan a book on Russia:

“My reason was this: in one section, it actually says that the only empire, the only power the Russian Empire respected was the Ottoman Empire.”

Before Finland, British and German leaders Starmer and Merz had also visited Ankara for SAFE (Security Strike for Europe), the new European army project they were trying to establish against Russia.

In the shadow theater that has been played out between the West and our country for 60 years, the outdated narrative of democracy and human rights (they even suspend democracy in their own country, let alone Turkey’s) is now being replaced by the carrot of membership in exchange for war against Russia.

If you buy it.

The US, which has relegated Russia—and therefore Ottoman gas—to Europe, is now, with its true patron, Israel, on a Central Asian offensive against Iran and China.

The one who announced this was Ambassador Tom Barrack, who acted like the Governor General of Turkey and Syria:

“You will see cooperation between Turkey and Israel from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean.”

The key word there was the word “Khazar.” (Caspian – Khazar — Sea gave her name to Khazar Empire)

Let me explain…

Those who know Arthur Koestler knew there used to be a writer. Koestler, a Jew, also had a famous book called “The Thirteenth Tribe.”

In this book, he described the addition of a 13th Tribe to the 12 tribes of Israel.

This 13th tribe was the Khazar Turks, historically known as the Khazarian Empire (between the 7th and 10th centuries).

According to Koestler, these Khazar Turks were the ancestors of the Jews in Russia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.

According to the author, they also comprised the vast majority of the Jews exterminated by Hitler.

This is a historical thesis that has generated considerable excitement and is still discussed in certain circles.

Now, following Israel’s genocide against Palestine, the “Khazar Mafia” conspiracy theory suddenly surfaced on social media.

The so-called “Khazar Mafia,” which allegedly includes the Rothschild family, is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that claims a secret clique of “fake” Jews, supposedly descended from medieval Khazars, controls global finance, media, and politics.

This phrase circulated widely in marginal media and social platforms from the 2010s to the 2020s, and gained momentum following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Trump and his Russian supporters, in particular, have widely spread these conspiracy theories.

In reality, however, the Khazar State was caught between the threats of the Byzantine and Arab armies at the time and, as a solution, converted to Judaism, which would eliminate both.

But the people didn’t convert; only the ruling classes appeared to politically accept this new religion, which they didn’t quite understand.

Still, names like Süleyman, İbrahim, and Yakub, which are common among Turks, are likely names that have persisted from those times, just like the names Mustafa, Hasan, and Ahmet that proliferated after the conversion to Islam.

In fact, Rothschild was the financier and supporter of all the Turks’ enemies.

Let’s leave the historians’ issue to the historians and get to the point.

I believe this recently spun Khazar story is actually fueled by Israel and the US.

This is a 2025 model invention, like Graham Fuller’s “Neo-Ottomanism” invention of 2002.

While Israel is being condemned daily by the West and the world at large for its horrific genocide and inhumane crimes, it is searching for a new ally (essentially cheap blood) against its true enemy, Iran.

After all, as Turkish marxist thinker Yalçın Küçük put it,

“Israel in Turkey is stronger than Israel in Turkey.”

Azerbaijan, where it has been investing for a long time, is now a staunch Israeli ally.

That’s why, while Israel was committing massacres, Azeri oil flowed, and Turkish ships did not interrupt trade. The Kürecik Radar Station continued to monitor Iran. Azerbaijan even provided a base to Israel.

Iran Back and the neighboring Turkic states on the Caspian Sea remained.

This is how I interpret Kazakhstan’s surprise inclusion in the “Abraham Accords.”

The leaders of the four and a half Turkic states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) hosted by Trump at the White House were in the US for this very reason.

Of course, the primary purpose was to drive a wedge against China, but the second reason was the “cooperation with Israel from the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea,” as Barrack mentioned.

This isn’t a very new concept, by the way.

The Gladio forces established when Turkey joined NATO have always cooperated with Israel. NATO Turanists defended their deep cooperation with Israel with the argument that “the Arabs stabbed us in the back” (which is true).

If we were to list those who stabbed us in the back, this article could turn into an encyclopedic book! I’m sure the excessive praise Trump received from Uzbek and Kazakh leaders in the White House is greatly encouraging to Israel and its supporters.

Kazakhstan, which entered the Abraham Accords, was relieved to avoid a serious backlash from Russia, where Israel wields considerable influence.

I can say that after the beating it suffered in the Twelve-Day War, Israel is now launching its “Caspian” (Khazarian) operation.

In short, while Europe is now taking over the Ottoman patting down for “cheap blood” against Russia, the US and Israel appear to be starting their “Caspian” rhetoric, enlisting the Turkic states.

Yet, neither Europe, the US, nor Israel are friends of the Turks.

They are representatives of the crusader and Zionist conspiracies that have sought to destroy us for a thousand years.

They also support the terrorist PKK-ISIS, have an eye on Cyprus and Blue Homeland and do everything in their power to divide Turkey.

Beyond moral dimension, neither Ottomanism nor Khazarism serves the geopolitics of the Turks.

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Hüseyin Vodinalı completed master’s degree (MA) in journalism and TV production at the New York Institute of Technology in the USA between 1992-94. During the same period, worked as the New York and United Nations correspondent of Anadolu Agency and TRT. He worked as a diplomacy and defense correspondent on Turkish national TV channels since 1995. Served as the  Chief of Foreign News at TRT, the Turkish State/Public Television. Retired from TRT in 2020. He still regularly publishes geopolitical articles on Veryansıntv.com and Dağarcık Turkiye, news and commentary sites. Author of three boks in Turkish: “Covid 19 – Beyond a Virus”, “NATO as a Mandate Organization” and “Epstein Scandal – Mossad’s Global Blackmail”.

He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

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