We were just waiting to see whether the arguments related with the Supreme Court voting in the Parliament would lead somewhere. We were observing the reflection of the verdicts given in Ali İsmail Korkmaz’s murder case.

Since the President and Prime Minister are abroad on separate trips, and since the leaders of the opposing party didn’t seem to have a striking program, as a journalist, our agenda was the previous day’s agenda.

Frankly speaking, there was nothing new related with Thursday.

Suddenly, the breaking news of Reuters filled the screens.

Was the Turkish delegation the real target of the bomb-laden vehicle in Somalia?

President Erdoğan was on his African tour and his next stop was Somalia.

Previously, the Al Shabaab organization attacked Turkish targets twice and taken the responsibility of those attacks.

Was it them again?

Or, was this a coincidence in Somalia, which is at the brink of a civil war?

In a short time, the answers arrived: Al Shabaab had taken the responsibility of the attack and stated that their target was the Turkish delegation, which included vanguards of the President.

Five Somalis lost their lives. Apparently, it was the terrorists that exploded one or two bomb-laden vehicles.

What did they want from us in Somalia?

What were we asking from Somalia?

This was actually an attack, which reminded us that we are in a country, geographical area, where your history catches up with you as you run away.

Such history explains to us why there had been a single sultan, that conducted great expeditions towards the East, within the successors and followers. The Ottoman fleet, which withdrew from that area in their struggle with Portugal due to their vessels being unsuitable for open ocean conditions, was using Somalia as a base.

As a strategy against Ottomans, who controlled the commercial and sea routes, Portugal, who discovered a way to pass under Africa, was standing against us with this opportunity.

Yavuz’s great expeditions were to stop Portugal, who managed to visit the Mecca – Medina border in their war preparation extending to the holy lands. Behind all of this, there was also a fight for the trade route that leads to valuable treasures like India and beyond.

The countries like the Mamluks, who couldn’t conduct that fight as it necessitates, and Safavids, whose Turkish roots cannot be denied, had been erased from the main struggle quickly or in time. When you are teleported to the recent time, after passing centuries, actually you don’t see anything other than a similar conflict.

Today’s war is to prevent Turkey, who is persistently trying to aid Somalia after being ravaged by natural disasters and to develop relations with them, from finding a handle over the rainbow.

And, the countries are fighting with mediators rather than with each other as the most crucial was the method of modern times. This struggle becomes economic, however, over the civil wars.

İbrahim Karagül’s article yesterday was an important one, which showed us that Somalia doesn’t only consist of Somalia.

That’s right…

Like how yesterday doesn’t/ couldn’t stay in yesterday.

Other than regional communities, who would want the Republic of Turkey, which had been established desperately  in the place of Ottomans (who had been partially kicked out of every place they were at right on the anniversary of World War I, to return to those lands….?

Who would want them to present a friendly, cultural, economical option without putting up a fight?

It was Portugal yesterday; however, we can list the first five countries that pop into our heads.

Let the experts find out and explain who or which countries Al Shabaab represents.

When the rivalry goes up to the international field, it becomes more ruthless and bloody than we can imagine. Similar to how the bomb, whose targets had been identified and which had been exploded before the President’s visit, is not just a bomb, Somalia is not only Somalia, and yesterday is no longer just yesterday….

There is nothing to do, but…

If you set up the first fleet to the international waters after the Ottomans, and extend your hand towards a banned country, then you should be prepared for this.

This is all….

We are required to carry on in the world we know, in a way we know, and we also will.

In Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Caucasus….

Our rivals know this quite well.

The matter is only about whether we are also aware of this as a nation, with our bureaucrats and politicians.