Erdoğan voiced the feelings of the international community against the US

Everyone knows and sees that the downward trend the Turkish Lira is currently experiencing against the dollar has nothing to do with either Turkey's economy or the economy of the United States.

The US economy is not relatively growing any stronger against Turkey's economy from yesterday to today, and the rise in the value of the dollar is not related to that either. As for Turkey's economic indicators, they give no sign that would require the Turkish lira to fall to this extent. On the contrary, all of Turkey's economic indicators show that it is much stronger.

Therefore, since nobody any longer has any doubt that the crisis is political rather than economic, the effect of the crisis is in fact diminishing with each passing day. By putting the US dollar into play as a weapon, as a trump card, the US is losing all trust both in itself and in its dollar.

This accelerates the search for alternatives to the dollar and to American hegemony not only in Turkey but all over the world. Discontent over the immorality of this hegemony and its reckless disregard for rules had in any case long been accumulating in everyone. This discontent has reached a breaking point together with Turkey.

For that reason, the US finds no bloc of allies at its side in its attempt to impose its political superiority on Turkey by using the dollar so openly as a trump card. Almost all the EU countries have taken a stand against the US over this immoral exchange-rate abuse.

Indeed, its latest operation has become an advanced step in the process we call the US besieging itself, closing in on itself.

In fact, a politician whose time has come goes and picks a fight with Tayyip Erdoğan. So far, no one in his political life who has tangled with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has managed to survive politically. It is possible to read this step by Trump as a sign that Trump and his team have reached the end of their political lives.

In fact, until now everyone had a desire to resist the discontent that was developing against America's insolent economic recklessness, but no one dared to voice it as openly as Erdoğan.

Trump's decision to withdraw, in violation of all international diplomatic and trade conventions, from the Transatlantic Customs Union agreement that Obama had initiated between the EU and the US had already stirred serious discontent in Europe against Trump's America. Trump's humiliation of Germany, his arrogant and boorish demeanor toward nearly all of Europe at the NATO meeting, and his snubbing of the Queen during his visit to Britain had led to an accumulation of serious antipathy toward Trump, but no one had dared to set themselves against Trump or America any further.

The emperor was standing there stark naked, and even though King Trump himself made no effort to appear clothed, nobody had the courage to say what they saw. But on account of this crisis Erdoğan has untied the knot of resentment that had built up inside everyone and has become the voice of everyone's feelings and of what they see. Probably even those EU countries that until now have been uncomfortable with Turkey's discourse have, for the first time, discovered a path between Erdoğan's sincere, frank, courageous heart and their own hearts.

On the Turkish front, the most important effect so far of an economic crisis of this scale has been that it has led to unity, solidarity and a closing of ranks among the nation inside the country. This effect is probably one that, just as on 15 July, was entirely unexpected and unreckoned by the putschists or those who supported the coup.

They will soon understand that continuing to run operations against the dollar will have no effect other than to increase their losses further. Because the operation against the Turkish lira has a cost. Do not think that this operation is free. After all, in order to buy dollars they too have to buy Turkish lira, and this trade does not come free. We are not even speaking of the cost of being forced to withdraw from the Turkish market, of losing the Turkish market.

They calculate that for those who run this operation this process could turn into a social explosion in Turkey, but instead of what they hoped for coming true, they are suffering a great disillusionment by seeing the Turkish people closing ranks even more. Never mind the Turkish people: the scenes coming today from the whole Islamic world in solidarity with the Turkish lira against the dollar are turning this crisis into an opportunity to show the whole world how far Turkey's geography of the heart and Erdoğan's leadership extend beyond Turkey. Whoever now meddles with Turkey is no longer meddling only with the 52.6 percent who support Erdoğan; they are meddling with a Muslim mass of 1.7 billion, and even beyond that, with a great hope from Latin America to India, from China to Russia.

THE RELATION OF THE EVENT TO BRUNSON AND TO 15 JULY

Incidentally, one must never think that the event has to do with the Pastor Brunson affair. Had that been so, the attitudes of US officials toward Turkey should not have begun on precisely the evening of the day Brunson was moved from a two-year imprisonment to house arrest. Besides, the first messages that came from the US that day after the court decision expressed satisfaction. That should have been the normal attitude that development deserved.

Yet the process launched just an hour or two later with Pence's statement and then Trump's tweet reflected the haste of a deeper operation planned against Turkey not to lose its Brunson pretext.

Probably, had Brunson been released entirely that day, US officials would have needed a little time to find a more valid pretext.

As you can see, the launching of such an operation on the day Brunson was partially released reflects a panic like that of the putschists who, panicking on the night of 15 July over Hakan Fidan's visit to Hulusi Akar, were forced to move the coup hour from 03:00 in the morning to 21:00.

Anyone who wishes can, of course, work out a path to a FETÖ-Brunson connection even from this similarity of behavior or panic. What do you say?