Erdogan Warns Taliban Bad News For Pakistan – Free PDF Download

What has happened?

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Afghan Taliban should “end the occupation of their brothers’ soil”.
• Speaking to reporters in Istanbul ahead of a visit to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC),
• Erdogan said the Taliban’s approach was not the way one Muslim should deal with another.

• “In our view, the Taliban’s approach right now is not how a Muslim behaves to another Muslim,” he said, urging the insurgent group to stop its occupation.
• “(The Taliban) need to end the occupation of their brothers’ soil and show the world that peace is prevailing in Afghanistan right away,” he said.

Significance

• Erdogan’s comments followed statements by the Taliban last week rejecting-
• Ankara’s proposal to leave some 500 troops in Afghanistan to secure Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport after NATO and US forces withdraw from the country by the end of August.
• Ankara, which has offered to run and guard the Kabul airport after NATO withdraws, has been in talks with the United States on financial, political and logistical support for the deployment.
• The group called Turkey’s plan “ill-advised, a violation of our sovereignty and territorial integrity and against our national interests.”
• “God willing, we will see what kind of talks we will have with the Taliban and see where these talks take us,” he said.
• Turkey maintains hundreds of troops in Afghanistan, but a Turkish official has said that they were “not combat forces”.

Afghan-Turkish ties

• Afghanistan is one such country that has always appeared prominently in Turkey’s strategic outlook of Asia.
• From 1870 onwards, Afghanistan was the centre of British-Turkish coordination against the Russian Empire;
• In the 1910s, Kabul was a centre of Turkish-German efforts against the British rule in India.
• Remained unchanged when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk came into power.
• His personal bond with King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan helped King Khan’s modernisation drive of Afghanistan’s education, healthcare, transportation, and infrastructure.
• The Saadabad Pact of 1939 was signed in view of Russia and China’s expansion around Afghanistan as India was still struggling to free itself from the British colonial yoke.
• As Britain left India in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two sovereign territories, India and Pakistan.
• Gradually, Pakistan replaced Afghanistan and Afghanistan gradually faded from Turkey’s strategic outlook.

Soviet invasion in 1980’s

• During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, an international Jihad was waged against the Soviets, facilitated by the US, financed by Saudi Arabia, and launched from Pakistan.
• Even though Pakistan-Turkey relations have progressed well from that point, Saudi Arabia, not Turkey, became more important to Pakistan’s security and defence policy, particularly in Pakistan’s West Asia relations.
• Pakistan and Turkey have disagreed on a number of issues about the future of Afghanistan.
• Historically, Turkey sees the Turkic ethnic groups, the Uzbeks and Hazaras, and Tajiks as their natural allies.
• Pakistan, on the other hand, has lost most of the Afghan allies it had made during the anti-Soviet Jihad, and the Taliban remains the only force on which Pakistan depends.
• With their known anti-India and anti-Iran positions, Taliban unites Pakistan and Gulf monarchies, mainly Saudi Arabia, who see Iran as an existential threat.
• As the Taliban have tactically moderated their anti-Iran and anti-India rhetoric, and
• Have assured Russia and China too of their compliance to a China–Russia-led vision of peace, Pakistan couldn’t secure a role for Turkey after the US withdrawal.

conclusion

• It is a unique situation for Pakistan where it must take its “brother country” Turkey on board and Ask the Taliban to tone down their anti-Turkey rhetoric over the latter’s plan to be the security in charge of the Kabul Airport.

Q) What flower was a popular symbol of the Ottoman Empire and stood for perfection and beauty?

1. Rose
2. Lilly
3. Daffodil
4. Tulip

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