I can say we feel it, but I'm not sure how much we are aware of it. Yet our world is at the head/within a major change. It is undergoing a gruelling period regarding what the new political order will be along with globalization after the cycle of empires, monarchies and nation-states.

This is actually an unnamed world war. We are witnessing its manifestation in parts. Hence, in order to join the parts and determine the location, we need to look back into history and trust our feelings.

In the approximately 6,000 years of civilization, 20 kinds of civilizations have lived. Nineteen of them “disappeared,” but actually they turned into the succeeding civilization. We are currently within the 20th civilization, in other words, the Western civilization. We are also within this West. Just as the West was also within the East in the recent past.

If the end of the era of empires is World War I, the greatest representative of the 19th civilization was the Ottoman Empire. The Western civilization rises, but it struggled for about 500 years to defeat the Ottoman Empire while it was newly fighting the East. Five secret agreements were made in the final scene in which Sevres was included, as was the Sykes-Picot.

As Tonybee said, after the year 1500, there has been no civilization other than the West that has been able to survive “as it is.” The West settled within the East and its leader, the Ottoman Empire, with all its institutions. They personally turned the Ottoman regime into Unionists and Kemalists. They had the task of wiping out the caliphate, sultanate, alphabet, legal system and the entire memory carried out by the “local revolutionists,” who they convinced to believe this was a very good thing to do.

You might ask “Where is the problem?” If a civilization does not deserve to survive, the same thing that happened to the first 18 will happen to the 19th; it will collapse and the next one will continue to carry the world. It could be said that what disappears or transforms is buried not a human civilization but only a kind of civilization.

So what if the 20th one is also on the eve of perishing or transformation or change?

All of these civilizations collapsed for two main reasons: Class and war. So in other words, in order for a civilization to survive, the middle classes need to feel safe and peace needs to be installed. The equal distribution of the welfare and justice system to wide masses, will determine the lifespan of that civilization. Hence, Western civilization is no longer able to fulfill its task regarding this matter.

Looking at the West, you might say the middle class is fine and that there is no war. True, when we look at the situation that was in the Middle East and the state of the masses in the East at large is obvious.

But I am claiming that the happenings in Syria and Iraq is a civil war of the U.S. and Europe and, of course, DAESH, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), is a Western symptom.

With all theories on the foundation of ISIL aside, the majority of its participants being the others of the West shows that the centuries-long colonial looting triggered a civil war. Although this civil war currently seems like it was exported to the emerging point of slavery/exploitation, the accumulation of hundreds and thousands of refugees along the West's borders is a symbolic expression of the problem returning to its roots.

Why are the refugees accummulating in Europe rather than Saudi Arabia or Iran is not an ordinary question. Because not only wealth, but the refugees' stolen wealths and the subject of their off-the-rails-story is also there.

For thousands of years, lastly the founding fathers of the West, fed and raised this civilization through capital achieved through the labor force of slaves and looting. The bones and wailings of the 6 million Congolese killed are in the plantations under the stone parquets on the Grand Palace in Brussels. Dependence on aesthetics increased in line with the increase of obsession with morality.

We had said there are two main reasons that destroyed all civilizations. Western theologists in the premodern world, or in other words, the world centered on God, would call this the “original sin.” The East had an energy that took Islam as the basis and prohibited racism. The original sin was now reflected in Western civilization in the form of racism, injustice among classes and war as the evil aspects of human nature. While today the unjust distribution of world resources and rights has taken the form of moral decay, the denial of what is tangible is rocking the foundation of Western civilization.

In other words, while war, bloodshed and poverty is present in the East, it seems like it is actually the Western civilization that feels under threat. This is because no civilization can survive without targeting meaning, justice and society.

Surely, at the end of the day, neither the West was able to completely eliminate Christianity in the West, nor has the East been able to completely eliminate the Ottoman Empire.

In the 21st century, religions will be in the forefront in determining how and by who the world will be directed. The theory that belief in God and religions will be eliminated through science, advanced technology and burocracy has collapsed.

Yet this is not good news for the faithful. The attempts of nation-states with religions and sects, and on the other hand, world capital becoming a subject in efforts aimed at establishing a world state, economy and religion, is again going to require great endeavors and pain.

Turkey is going to be right at the center of this conflict. The current rough struggle is an indication of this.

Let us continue tomorrow on how it might happen.