Trump's favourite dictator Sisi is in a bind

It is never clear what kind of results America's friendship produces. Or rather, the US is in fact a country that generally harms those it calls friends. For that reason, either not being friends with the US at all or keeping the friendship at a certain distance turns out to be far more beneficial.

It did the greatest harm to Turkey, for example, in the periods when it appeared most friendly with it. It was, for example, behind all the military or non-military coups against democracy in Turkey's history. Coups are the greatest cause of all the thefts, corruption and human rights violations that upset a country's political balances and lead to its resources being siphoned off by being handed to those who do not deserve them.

Moreover, we see far more clearly today that the PKK, from which we have suffered for 50 years, draws its real strength from the US. We see it with a clarity that requires no conspiracy analyses. Indeed, it no longer hesitates to support it openly. Because we, too, now keep our distance and tell it to its face that it is cooperating with terror. For that reason it knows better the harm that will come from us, and we take our precautions accordingly.

Be assured that in this way its harm is less than before. We invited it to be more honest and it did not work. We gave it the cold shoulder and forced it to act more openly. Now it has to show openly that it supports the PKK. Thanks to this, we too see better that the problem facing us is not a Kurdish problem but a US problem. Sincere, genuine Kurds also see this relationship, this betrayal, this treachery now, and they take their positions accordingly. As for those who do not, they bid farewell to Kurdishness, to humanity and to loyalty alike.

The same US also protects FETÖ, which has most insidiously beset Turkey and which did not shrink, when necessary, from an armed coup. While protecting it, of course, it also manages it, and this force it manages does not hold back from waging the lowest, most insidious struggle against Turkey in every part of the world, on every front and in every field.

Let it not hold back; let it even spare no effort. Just let it no longer call us a friend and work behind our backs.

The US giving nothing but harm while showing friendship is a rule not only in its relations with Turkey but also in its relations with others. For example, what has it given Saudi Arabia, which it spreads the impression is its greatest ally in the region, other than harm? Is it not enough as a scandal for their relationship that the weapons it sold for hundreds of billions of dollars did not protect its airspace and oil facilities against a simple Houthi attack?

This distorted reality alone has done Saudi Arabia far more harm than that Houthi attack caused. Fortunes wasted in vain, and, besides, the trampled honor of the Saudi people in the face of the insolence and humiliation displayed in the words addressed to the King, "Without US protection you could not last 2 weeks." Really, what benefit has US friendship provided Saudi Arabia up to now; does anyone know?

It is no secret that one of the US's most important friends in the region is Sisi. Sisi is the ideal dictator model that the US deems suitable for any Muslim country in the Middle East. From the fact that the US, which for years masked its own aggression with the claim of exporting democracy and human rights to the Middle East or the world, did not call Sisi's coup a coup and then showed no reaction to the human rights violations that became public knowledge, everyone already saw that their relationship was very special.

But Trump's calling out for Sisi at the G7 Summit held in France in recent days, saying "where is my favorite dictator!", also laid bare all the dimensions of that very special relationship between them. Undoubtedly, these dimensions are not a form of relationship that either the Egyptian people or any Muslim country deserves.

Sisi is the model-favorite dictator that Trump, and in fact all US administrations, deem fit for the Islamic world. For them what matters is not that the Islamic world be democratic or the like, but only that it be under their control, and this can only be provided by those like Sisi, who are ruthless, despotic dictators toward their own people and display an utterly fawning obedience toward them.

Yet Sisi, whom Trump finds quite lovable because of his fawning, is the tyrant, the nightmare, of his own people.

Or rather, we must now say he was their nightmare. Because the Egyptian people experienced a shake-off that overcame in a single night the wall of fear in which they had been trapped for 6 years. While Trump's favorite dictator was setting out toward him, the demonstrations that began spontaneously on Friday night after a match soon turned into protests that spread to at least 8 major cities.

These protests, taking place for the first time in 6 years, do not seem to be a one-off; they seem to continue until Sisi is sent away.

What we understand is that the bells have begun to toll for Trump's favorite dictator. How and where this business goes, we shall look at that later.