Dr. Moheeb Salha
"Psychological syndrome", is a medical term to denote a group of diseases which affect individuals in varying proportions, and the common denominator of which is the separation from reality, delusion and inability to listen to the voice of reason. The types of syndromes vary from transient or permanent seizures to rare syndromes facing humans and they cause symptoms which are unimaginable to the human mind. It is clear that these syndromes not only fall within the scope of psychology, but also in the domain of socio-political psychology. It gets more dangerous in the health of the individual community (in a country) and the humanitarian community in general (in several countries or all countries) in cases where its symptoms are destructive, and it exceeds the logic of the political interests of states – regardless of their principles – to the logic of greatness, leadership and control with false pretenses, sometimes historical, economic, and sometimes religious, and in all case it conceals malicious geopolitical intentions.
Erdogan has succeeded in transferring Turkey into a qualitative shift in the field of the economy, as Turkey has become a progressive country of growth in a decade, after being an economically backward country for long decades, despite its progress politically as a democratic and secular state, but its political system is flawed by the military from behind the scenes, by calling for the defense of democracy and secularism, and this was the most foolish and stupid political joke, because the military's place is on the fronts and not in the corridors and galleries of politics.
This economic success was seen by Erdogan as a historical victory over the defeats of an empire called at the end of its life as the sick man. This vision turned into a major illusion of the return of an Ottoman caliphate, which hadn't offered to humanity but a simple vow which doesn't appear on the map of the human civilization throughout its rule since the fall of Constantinople in the beginning of the second half of the 15th century A.D. This illusion generated Erdogan 's Sultanate tendency, which was evident in his reception of Germany' s majestic woman, Angela Merkel on two chairs of pure gold, in which she told the reporters: "I was counting the seconds in order to get up from this chair which is made of the pain and hunger of the poor.”
This Sultanate tendency of Recep Erdogan isn't new, it is as old as his first ministry, and it has become more and more firmed by converting the political system of the secular democratic republic of Turkey from a parliamentary system to a presidential one which gives the president broad powers, allowing Erdogan to reduce the margin of secularism and democracy under the pretext of the military coup, and to get rid of his rivals in the Justice and Development Party (AKP), where the most famous of whom is Ahmet Davutoglu, the former Turkish Foreign Minister and the architect of the 'zero problems' policy, which aimed – in a process of democratic change – at improving the image of the Turkish state in its neighborhood and empowering the AKP and its president to rule Turkey for a long time. Because Erdogan's Sultanate tendency which is separated from reality, is only achieved by a reality on its scale, he is pushing the data of this reality in the context of building a popularity based on false illusions about a new Ottoman Empire which tickles the feelings of the Turks, and recruits their capabilities against other nations, and it manipulates the religious feelings of an Islamic majority, which is led by political Islam that is rejected in its national environments.