Where is the world heading, where is the US heading?

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been in China for two days for the opening ceremony of the "Belt and Road Forum," attended by the leaders of 29 countries. At the forum, followed by 1,500 delegates from 130 countries and 70 international organizations, the "Eurasian Economic Union" proposed by Russia and the "Middle Corridor" project proposed by Turkey were also assessed; it is a large-scale initiative envisaging the development of a new international transport and communications network, of which the Silk Road project is also a part. Within the scope of this initiative, nearly 60 countries will increase cooperation on land, sea, air and rail routes and in cyberspace across a belt stretching from China to Europe, and it is noted that these will be supported by port and pipeline projects. Within this initiative China is signing cooperation agreements with more than 40 countries and organizations, and during the forum it is signing trade and economic cooperation agreements with more than 30 countries.

President Erdoğan is a supporter of this initiative and, within this framework, an important actor in this investment in a world built on peace, one in which mutual interests between societies are secured.

As we have said before, what is valued and prioritized in the Middle East too, especially with our own neighbors, is precisely an investment in life, in peace, in togetherness, in sharing, in unity and solidarity. Long-term projects of this kind can be realized only under conditions of peace. What is more, when investments are made in projects on this scale, one becomes all the more bound to peace.

Before the Syrian crisis began, Turkey had moved to a joint trade and cooperation arrangement covering four countries together with Syria, Lebanon and Jordan; visas had been lifted within this framework and they had almost reached the point of joint cabinet meetings. In a very short time this arrangement was seen to have brought great vitality to the economies of all four countries. Then what happened happened, and this process was cut short.

In essence, the peoples of the region are ready to embrace and integrate as if drawn to one another like magnets. If there were no interventions in between, the centuries-long togetherness of the peoples of the region has engraved a common spirit and culture acting among them like a magnetic field. Although the order of states built with Sykes-Picot was operated to destroy the effect of this magnetic field that draws them to one another, it has not succeeded. Today this fitna, which could not be carried to its final point with the Sykes-Picot order, is being attempted to be completed with a flagrancy that would be plain even to a blind eye.

It is constantly said that the US is behind all the coups and many secret operations in Turkey and the region, especially after the Second World War. Of course, the official US discourse never takes responsibility for such operations. After all, the US never eyes the PR publicity that could be gained by assuming responsibility for such activities. Even if it had a role, a perception that everything occurred in its own course has suited its own PR discourse better.

Even if it emerges that "our boys" carried out 12 September, it is never admitted. Even if the FETÖ members run rampant in the US, even if the ringleader of the 15 July coup attempt and all its senior cadres are in the US, even if close to one billion dollars a year of financing for terrorist activities is provided through the schools they have opened, the US is never behind the 15 July coup. All it does is not extradite the FETÖ ringleader, about whom "sufficient evidence has still not been presented," to Turkey, as an act belonging to an independent judiciary.

As for the open support the US is giving to the PYD, a US with countless examples of double language, double standards and ill intent in all its plans concerning Turkey and the Middle East, to tell the truth, this is quite contrary even to its style so far. It is a style that almost "surpasses itself."

While all the countries of the region invest in life, peace and tranquility, the US in Syria invests only in death, chaos and war. In doing so, it remains faithful to no memorandum of understanding with its own allies. In every move it acts on its own initiative. Perhaps you will dismiss it by saying "this is the excessive arrogance of excessive power." The US expresses its power in this way, by showing that it is subject to no rule. But the fact that it fails to see that this display of power is preparing step by step a disaster first of all for itself constitutes the weakest point of that power.

The US comes in the name of freeing the people of the region from ISIS, but no one has invited it on such grounds. Against Assad's crimes against humanity, the people of the region certainly had a request for help from everyone, and still do, but that help is being withheld. Moreover, for the war it has declared on ISIS it forms an alliance with another terrorist organization. What does it promise it, what does it pledge, will it be able to give what it pledged, and if it does, what will that bring to the world and to its own security?

In the end, with its intervention it is saving no one from anyone, it is only preparing a disaster that will first of all ruin everyone's lives.

The interventions it carries out bring no benefit either to the Syrian people or to the Kurds it is using against ISIS. First, by using the PYD, it makes the Kurds enemies of one another. In the long term it leads to the formation of a grudge and blood feud among the Kurds themselves. Then, by promising the Kurds under PYD rule a kind of Baath-style power in the regions they will have them occupy, they produce new Assads out of them. The best project the US, called a superpower, called democratic, can offer the people of the region turns out in the end, unfortunately, to be this: a horizon at the level of terrorist organizations, chaos, civil war, mass deaths and, at best, a "Baathist dictatorship."

While the US chases new opportunities in the chaos it has created, the people of the region seek the paths of connecting with one another through new belt and road projects, of tranquility, peace and togetherness. In this way, what they are saying to the US is, in part, this: "just get out of the light; we ask for no other favor."

Because its aid does not look like aid, its peace does not look like peace, its fight against terrorism does not look like a fight against terrorism, its democracy does not look like democracy.