“We have started a new era,” President Erdoğan said in a statement before his visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). During his visit to the UAE, Erdogan met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan, who was declared the financier of the July 15 coup attempt, and signed 13 agreements. The Erdogan administration, which also signed a swap agreement with the UAE in January, has tied its hopes to the funds of the Abu Dhabi administration to overcome the cash shortage. As a matter of fact, the UAE administration wants to turn the stuckness of the Erdoğan government into an opportunity to invest in Turkey and to open up to new markets through Turkey.

Thus, the UAE, which was declared the 'financier of the coup' yesterday, has become the 'savior' today.

Erdogan said that they want to develop this process with Saudi Arabia upon his return from his visit to the UAE, and that they will also open a new page in relations with Israel with the visit of Israeli President Herzog in March.

One of the prominent issues in Erdogan's statements to journalists on the plane was Libya. Saying, “Right now, it is out of the question for us to stand back in Libya,” Erdogan said regarding the prime ministerial crisis in Libya, “Our relations with Fethi Başağa are good. On the other hand, it is also good with Dibeybe. Besides, our relations with Halid el-Mişri are also good. The whole issue is who the Libyan people will choose here, how they will do it," and distributes "blue beads" to all parties fighting for sovereignty in Libya today.

Başağa, whom he says "our relations are good", is supported by Khalifa Haftar, whom Erdoğan had previously declared a putschist, and was elected prime minister by the House of Representatives in Tobruk, which he had previously declared illegitimate.

It shouldn't be surprising if Erdogan, who took steps to "normalize" over telephone diplomacy with his former enemies, calls Haftar soon!

As it is known, since last May, talks have been held with Egypt, with which relations were severed after the Chief of General Staff Abdulfettah-es Sisi overthrew the Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood) Morsi with a military coup in 2013.

So what happened that Erdogan has so quickly entered the path of "normalization" in relations with the regimes and powers that he declared yesterday as "coup plotters", "coup supporters", "enemy to the will and interests of the peoples of the region"?

What is happening is this: To the extent that the steps taken in the Middle East, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, claiming to be a 'regional leadership' and a 'game-making power', come to a deadlock, new initiatives and moves for the Erdoğan administration in order not to be left out of the game, and on this basis the opposition The search for reconciliation with the forces encountered has become inevitable.

Moreover, their spokespersons in the government and the media do not hesitate to propagate this rapid 'u'-turn in relations with the regime and forces that were declared hostile/enemy yesterday, saying that "even the Ottomans did not rise so fast" as a great success.

They say, “Sir, steps are not taken unilaterally. They also want to 'normalize' with us.”

It is true; Why shouldn't Egypt's leader Sisi want Erdoğan, the biggest supporter of the Brotherhood, to reconcile with him?

Or, at a time when it is imposing surrender on Palestine under the name of the "Deal of the Century", why should Israel stay away from having good relations with the Erdogan administration, knowing that this step will serve its own policies?

Why would the UAE and Saudi Arabia give up on the unmissable investment opportunities they offer because they are angry with Erdogan?

As you can see, it would be naive to expect regional reactionaries to turn their backs on an important country and power like Turkey coming to a line that will serve their own political interests.

Then they say, "Sir, we are taking these steps to protect our national interests."

However, the discourse of "national interests" is used as a cover for the interests of the power and the monopoly bourgeois reactionary alliance.

What did İlnur Çevik, the Chief Advisor to the President, say at the time?

He said, "We lost fifty-odd martyrs in Afrin, but Turkish contractors will take the biggest cake."

Some of the policy called "national interests" meant "martyrdom", some said "homeland, nation, flag" and bowed to unemployment, poverty and price hikes, and some "tender cake".

Involving in the civil war in Libya with jihadist militants and SİHAs recruited from the Syrian war, "We will get a large share of the oil and natural gas there. Our economy will be saved,” they argued.

Let's say, in negotiations on energy resources and their transit routes in Libya or the Eastern Mediterranean, Erdogan's government got what it wanted.

Who will get what share of the "national interest" here?

The monopolies with which the government has a common destiny will take the tenders. The share of the nation will be to fill the coffers of these monopolies with the bills that go up on top of the hike! No need to go far. The picture in the electricity produced in the country is in the middle. On the one hand, the distribution companies that add profit to their profits under the guarantee of the state, on the other hand, the people who are unable to pay their bills.