Who lost Egypt? Who won?

A military coup took place in Egypt against a president elected by the people for the first time, after only one year, didn't it? Some have failed to see what kind of moral corruption this is, what a great attack, even humiliation, against the Islamic world, and have immediately fallen to worrying about the foreign-policy losses Turkey has suffered with this coup.

Of course: since Turkey has so far supported the Muslim Brotherhood, that is, President Morsi, it loses as a result of this coup in Egypt. And what a loss! According to the calculation made by adding it to the other losses, Turkish foreign policy is portrayed as completely bankrupt. By the same calculation, we are losing in Syria, we are losing in Iraq, and because of the developments in these countries we are confronted with many countries, so we are losing on all sides.

Let us say this much: this calculation is very simple, cheap, and one that reveals all the sicknesses of the one who makes it. An approach that indexes everything in foreign policy to interest is, in essence, incapable even of calculating Turkey's material interest; since it exposes a greedy approach with its ugly face, it produces an untrustworthy profile anyway. Does anyone know what kind of alternative those who say Turkey is losing in Egypt or Syria propose to Turkey in the face of the developments we have all lived through together?

What were we to do, for example? Just so as not to lose Assad, should we have closed our doors to desperate people who had barely escaped with their lives from Assad's death squads, his Shabiha, and had reached the Turkish border? Just so our good relations would continue, should we have remained silent about the actions of a murderous dictator fighting his own people in the most merciless way? Does the world, which has chosen to follow a "smart policy" and be a spectator to all that has happened, gain much by doing so? Even if we are incomparable because of our border neighborliness of over 900 km, can we still not see that each one of them individually has gained nothing from the developments concerning Syria?

Is Iran coming out ahead from the developments in Syria, or France, or Germany? Russia? The US? In truth this is a war in which no one profits, but everyone has built his gain on increasing the losses of other actors, which is why the process drags on and on.

Those who have said nothing about the military coup in Egypt, those who have silently approved it, who are probably either accomplices or sponsors of this coup, are not doing what they do in order to profit from this coup. On the contrary, they are doing it to compensate for the damage that emerged in the Arab Spring process, in a panic to desperately eliminate the threats produced by the situation that emerged in this process.

The development of democracy in the region is, as we noted before, something the Western countries do not want at all. Moreover, they do not hold back from showing this unwillingness even at the price of exposing all their frauds. They thought that by not calling the coup a coup they could hide the hypocrisy they have displayed on democracy and human rights in Egypt, but no one will swallow it from now on.

They may have won the state apparatus in Egypt for a short while, but they have lost the Egyptian people forever. Running the state is, from this moment on, a ball of fire in their hands. A state without any prestige or legitimacy among the people, one that, because it may be toppled again at any moment, will multiply the nightmares of its supporter a thousandfold.

The aid packages that Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries put into effect immediately after the coup show what kind of panic they are in. Do you think this panic reflects the joy and excitement of having come out ahead from the coup? Would the Egyptian people, who are now filling the squares of Egypt and have signed the most magnificent resistance the region's history has seen, leave any joy and excitement in them? This fear they feel that the winds of democracy that developed in the Arab Spring process will also visit their own countries will keep making them lose continually. And fear is of no use against one's appointed hour.

Might those who worry about what Turkey has lost after a coup in Egypt be so kind as to also tell us who has gained what from this process?

But let us say it before they do: perhaps it will again be a short-lived gain, but the US's Camp David order, and therefore Israel, appears to come out ahead from this process. In fact, the only message of those who remind Turkey of profit and loss is that Turkey should renew its allegiance to this eternally profitable (as they suppose) axis. One of the first things done in Egypt after the coup was the immediate closing of the Rafah border gate with Gaza and the reaffirmation of Egypt's commitment to the Camp David order. It is an apparent gain, but how much longer can this gain be sustained in the face of an Egyptian people in total uprising and the Islamic world?

By being the only country that has shown the courage to call the coup a coup in Egypt in the loudest voice, Turkey has increasingly voiced the future that is taking shape in the whole Islamic world. Instead of a foreign policy approach shaped by simple and cheap calculations of interest, Turkey is fulfilling a pioneering mission by voicing a principled approach to policy that today has been left without an owner. Let no one worry; this stance is being recorded all over the world, and the world is not a fixed place but a historical process. We are living a very short moment of this historical process in which everything is changing rapidly.