After being under fire from critics who accused him of not being heard since the beginning of the Egyptian crisis, Recep Tayyip Erdogan left his reserve, Tuesday 1 February, at the weekly meeting of the AKP group. Acknowledging the magnitude of the events of 29 January and 1 February 2010, the Turkish prime minister called Hosni Mubarak to hear the desire to reform his people, and to initiate without delay the necessary transition. Yet far from being satisfied with this first step, the leader of the AKP, which was the next day in Kyrgyzstan on the occasion of an official visit, drove home the point, asking again Hosni Mubarak to promote change in Egypt, but this time in terms more explicit and insistent. Responding further to the announcement by the Egyptian president, the evening events of February 1, he would not stand in the next presidential election, the leader of the Turkish government held the initiative insufficient. "The people expect a different decision Mr. Mubarak, "he said, adding:" ... the Egyptians do not trust the current administration to see the changes they expect. "
More importantly, Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he had to begun to do so in a more discrete, Tuesday, has again highlighted the Turkish experience of democratization, and the interest it could mean for the Arab countries changing. This comment comes as the think tank TESEV just released a survey on the impact of the Turkish experience of democratization in the Middle East, which shows that 66% of the 2,300 respondents in seven Arab countries and Iran, see Turkey as a successful blend of Islam and democracy. Adding to the remarks made by Prime Minister, he did not take more so that the Turkish press covers itself with chronic displaying meaningful titles on the subject: "Turkey is Tahrir Square," "The Role of Turkey in the Revolution "or" This is not Iran, perhaps it will be Turkey. Many of their authors agree also to estimate that this renewed attention to the Turkish political experience could strengthen the regional outreach Ankara when Egypt wobbles and that Turkey will fall more than ever, the Middle East, a position of power upward.
While the Prime Minister was promoting a political model "a la turca", its foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, visited Qatar, February 3, to discuss the crisis with Egyptian Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Jasin al-Thani. This is not the first time that Ankara and Doha are found side by side to discuss the problems of the region or to work towards their resolution. Both countries have recently worked together to stabilize the Lebanese government crisis, managing to unite the Druze and Hezbollah under the auspices of a prime minister's pro-Syrian Sunni, a dangerous initiative that has so far resulted in displacing Western diplomacy in the Land of Cedars . Qatar and Turkey are still found to favor the isolation policy of Syria, trying to integrate Hamas into the negotiations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or bring the Iraqi factions. Doha also plays an important role in the negotiations currently taking place on Darfur.
At first glance this convergence between two different countries in many ways may surprise. Turkey is Sunni. It has a population of 76 million inhabitants, and is not part of the Arab world. Qatar, for its part, is an emirate in the Gulf of just one and half million people, oil producer, who distinguished himself in recent years by undertaking numerous reforms (development of women's rights, establishment of an elected parliament ...). It will host the football World Cup in 2022, and we observe that, like Turkey, its influence has continued to grow in the Middle East in recent years. This rise also owes much to the fact that this country is home to the famous news channel Al-Jazeera, which since the U.S. intervention in Iraq in 2003, holds a central place in news coverage in the Middle East, a place that is becoming even now in Egypt.
In fact, when the Egyptian crisis has stalled, where American diplomacy is reluctant to openly advocate leaving the spokes and where the European capitals to try to stir us to forget the absence of Lady Ashton initial The pair Turkish-qatar is taken seriously, and might even be surprised by his initiatives in the coming days.
JM
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