Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent activism on Kashmir is motivated by Turkey president's Caliphate dreams

Although Turkey has traditionally supported Pakistan in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation against India on the Kashmir issue, its recent activism in South Asian affairs emanates from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s larger ambitions of leading the Islamic world On 21 November, Turkey hosted an international conference on Kashmir that severely criticised India’s revocation of Article 370 and raised serious concerns about the future of Kashmir. Although Turkey has traditionally supported Pakistan in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation against India on the Kashmir issue, its recent activism in South Asian affairs emanates from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s larger ambitions of leading the Islamic world. He has denied this but now is openly using militias of former [IS/Al-Qaeda> terrorists exposing him for what he is: A radical Islamist megalomaniac who wants to establish a caliphate with himself as a caliph-the supreme ruler.” Turkey has supported Syria’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, which has significant influence among most of the anti-Bashar al-Assad opposition groups like the Free Syrian Army, and terrorist groups like Jahbat-Al-Nusra and Ahrar-al-Sham. Senator Sherry Rahman said, “India’s unilateral actions in Kashmir are a slap on the face of the international community and United Nations.” Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party lawmaker Erkan Akcay said that the world faces six key problems: Jerusalem, Cyprus, Kashmir, Crimea, Kashgar,.