Turkey is putting up a fatal struggle to negate a multinational will and series of interventions aimed at stopping it and confining it into a tight space to render it inactivate. We are in a state of resistance, a state of enduring the attacks in question and the grand project, and instead of defense and begging, we are in a state of charge and confrontation.

Turkey has launched a tough fight on the inside against the multinational attacks that have been continuing particularly since the Gezi Park terror. The attacks have been evaded and inactivated. A sort of national struggle was put up. When the areas of operation inside the country began to diminish, the attacks started to turn outside, to Turkey’s areas of influence.

Those who could not cause a Turkey-Iran war (had it been successful, it was going to be one of the results of July 15) attempted to turn Iraq and Syria’s north, from the Mediterranean to the border with Iran, into a large front against Turkey. The U.S.-led Western consensus tried to create heavy pressure by surrounding our country’s south, and to corner our country on the inside and silence it. It tried to release the Kurdish groups in the region into the anti-Turkey front and sever our entire ties with the Arab/Muslim world.

The reason behind the Euphrates Shield operation, the Idlib operation, the plans to clear Afrin, opposition to Masoud Barzani’s referendum was the effort to break this siege. While doing this, Turkey put up a national struggle and continues to do so. It put up against the multinational waves of attack approaching from the south and continues to do so. Because the July 15 attack and the front prepared in the south are the one and the same front; it is the bid to collapse Turkey, trap it within its borders and take it hostage again.

The moment the U.S.-Israel projects started to lose their impact in Iraq and Syria, a new front against Turkey was built further south. The foundations of a new anti-Turkey wave were laid through the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and particularly through Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed. Though it seems that the UAE-Saudi Arabia-Israel “axis” was developed against the expansion of Iran, its main objective, its covert target is actually Turkey.

This time the main plan is to pit Turkey and the Arabs against one another. The U.S. and Israel have activated the 20th century’s arguments against Turkey and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has vast impact in the Arab world, and brought the prejudices of the past to the present through Arab nationalism. They started a process of provoking the Arab streets against Turkey through the brawls of the Baath administrations.

The UAE’s dirty campaign with U.S. and Israeli intelligence has been built on Arabs’ anti-Turkey sentiment; Jerusalem was the first victim of this partnership. The fundamental goal is to sever our country’s ties with the Arab world, isolate it and force it to withdraw into its borders.

But Turkey has never ever backtracked against all these multinational interventions; it has turned to offense instead of defense; regardless of how much they push us to withdraw into our borders, the more Turkey has turned toward the outside, the region and the geography, forming a surprising area of influence. This fight is not a fight of internal politics. This is the country’s future defense and future plan. Hence, any bid to negate or weaken this struggle, any outburst, any behavior that would trivialize it will harm our country’s great struggle.

President Erdoğan’s three-country visit to Africa has been the first sign of the joy that started in Muslim countries especially with his negation of the Jerusalem conspiracy planned by the U.S. and Israel along with some Arab administrations. The strong love displayed for President Erdoğan and Turkey at the Sudanese parliament and Khartoum University was no show.

We must say the same feelings and awareness are prevalent in the vast Muslim geography spanning the Atlantic and Pacific shores.

This is the result of the anger against those setting traps against Muslims’ symbols, those turning their cities into ruins and pillaging their countries. It is a sign of how the Muslim countries that were silenced, scared, threatened, exposed to extortion are able to jump back up on their feet with enthusiasm once they find a loud voice, trust, a way out, once a noble march begins and once a legitimate fight is presented.

Turkey has been the country to activate the entire region; it displayed a dignified stance, and instilled confidence. It showed that our countries, our communities are not alone. It showed the power that can be formed when we clench our fists.

There is no doubt that Erdoğan is a great revolutionist, the leader of a great history showdown in the eyes of the Muslim world. He brought Seljuk-Ottoman history and their claims to today and has become the representative of the 21st century claims at a time the global power domain is being reshaped.

Turkey is a leading country with its political discourse, stance, and its fight aimed to saving itself and the region. It is, once again, the main axis of a historic showdown. The lands which flags fell in the early 20th century are now, in the early 21st century, re-hoisting that flag. This is the summary of the matter; this is the main reason behind the multinational attacks targeting our country. Because Turkey has mobilized within its borders and in the region against those trying to take it hostage from within, and has started the showdown of the century. While they try to strike our country from within, Turkey answered by embracing the entire region.

This will go on this way. It will continue even if they find regional support, even if they find partners on the inside, even if they call terrorist organizations to help. Sometime later, the Arab world will see the new trap set up against them and understand that this trap is the final step to dividing Arab countries and territory; they will realize the destruction the “Arab-Israel alliance” will lead to and come close to the line of struggle sanctified by Turkey.

The debate trying to be started in the Arab world in relation to Sudan’s Suakin Island is an argument provoked entirely by the West and Israel. Those who tell them, “Turkey is expansionist,” have not left a single country untouched, unharmed in this region; they divided many countries and pushed them into endless wars.

Those who are silent against those who occupied Jerusalem, who don’t say a word against those who are preparing to take Mecca and Medina hostage, who don’t say anything against those that turned every corner of the Arab world into military garrisons are concerned that Turkey is expanding its area of influence.

We know that this is the concern of their bosses, not theirs. We know who are disturbed and left sleepless over Turkey expanding its area of influence. We know what it means for us to instigate the region while they are trying to destroy our country from within.

They complain that Turkey is going to build a military base. Of course it is. Shouldn’t it? Should the U.S. build one? Or Israel? Why don’t you say anything to them? Why didn’t you raise your voice when the U.S. and Israel were bombing Sudan? Why couldn’t you say anything to them?

Turkey will reach everywhere it can - it must. This is a defense of the country, defense of the region. It is the response to be given to those who brought the war to our borders, it is a show of the region’s power. And there is no other way. There is no way through docility, reconciliation, submission, surrender or begging. That period, that century is over now.

If we are present in Somalia, in Syria, in Qatar or in Sudan, it is to defend, to protect those lands; we are there to take position against new attacks that will destroy the Muslim countries between the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. Those who surrender should avoid giving us any advice, if they can, they should look at how much support they can give to Turkey’s great struggle.

We are protecting Jerusalem the same way we will defend and protect Mecca and Medina in the future; mark my words.

This sensitivity shown by Turkey, its stance and its fight is a historic march. At a time when the world is being reshaped, the global power domain is being reshaped, it is the strongest answer to those trying to keep our region out of this and to those trying to exclude it from history. This is not an imperial dream; it is the construction of a defense shield.

History has called on us again, it has burdened us with that same responsibility again. It is right in this period that true friends and enemies become clear - just as it becomes clear at every great historic breaking point.

This voice is a great civilization struggle. It is the fight for honor and freedom. Its voice is so strong that it is echoing from the depths of Africa to the streets of the Middle East, from Pakistan to the Malays. We believe that this is the voice of the 21st century and that it is going to reverse global plans, negate those multinational projects and start a legendary rising period from this region.

We are hopeful and we will never lose this hope. Because while some are starting to collapse, we are on a rise. Hence, our nation is going to win this great showdown.