Please educated me on the Islamic World if I am mistaken. Turks are a warrior tribe, as recently as 200 years ago, the Ottomans were very powerful. The Arabs are not associated with warrior tribes for more than a thousand years already, although they had their hey-day. The Persians have not been expansionist for something like 2000 years.
My distrust of Turkey comes from the fact they prefer not to ally with Iran against Israel and the West, but instead remains a part of NATO. Also, Turks sympathize with Uighur minority groups and some of their separatist elements in Western China.
Sir you summed up your reasons in the last sentence. And that I can understand. You remind me of the double standards and the irony of what the West sees as just cause and terrorism. Case in point, Iraqi Kurds during Saddam regime were freedom fighters and honourable people but cross the border into Turkey, same people, same race, same language, customs and cause these people were branded as terrorists by the West.
Now coming to your first paragraph, Turks Ottoman empire was just like any Eastern and Western empire and to expand and conquer are its essential part be it through diplomacy or conquest so Turks didnt do anything different from the rest of the Empires. Apart from their alleged support of Ulgers as you put it, the only conflcict I know are their immediate borders with Greece and PKK.
But that was long time ago. We talk about the modern Turkey of Kamal after the world wars the old empire is dead, the Arabs have their own states now.
I dont know why you decided that Arabs are not a warrior race, far from it they have been warriors throughout the known history and have fought as Auxiliaries for whatever empire that had influence over their land. Their own feuds lasted for decades that started on petty disputes. After emergence of Islam they also morphed into an empire and followed the similar formula of the empires with their conquests of Constantinople, Persia, Spain, Africa and Asia. So sir I dont know what are you talking about when you say Arabs are not a warrior race. And by the way, this has nothing to do with Islam, the so called Caliphate was nothing but Kingship after the 4 Caliphs 3 of whom were murdered by a tribe which felt marginalised due to the emergence of Islam. And what followed afterwards was more like an empire rather than an Islamic welfare state which was the concept given by the founder of Islam we call Prophet Muhammad PBUH.
You let off Persians lightly because Sun set on their empire 2000 years ago when they were crippled by the Rival empires of their times. By that token maybe after 2000 years Turks would also be seen as favourably as Persians (too bad we wont be around to find out).
Now talking about distrust, re Turkeys siding with West vs. Iran well its open for debate national interests always come first. I cant judge Turkey on that just like I dont want to be judged over the Pakistans support of China over its treatment of Uighur. Irans regime is not making it easy for anyone to side with their extremist views specially there is a lot of bad blood between them and the Arab monarchies also their support of the Palestinians which is commendable should not be in any way violent and fanning the war fever.
It hasnt helped before and it is not going to help now. I cant say any more on this because this argument is going on from the day when the victors of 2nd world war decided that the Palestinians had to pay the price for the atrocities of Nazis. Like I said in the previous email, Turkey despite its relations with Israel and part of NATO has done more in recent times by suffering the death of many of its citizen when its relief ships to Palestine were attacked by Israeli forces, compare that to any Arab Sheikh what have they done so far apart from building another F1 track, or 7 star hotel or yet another record breaking skyscraper?
Its all noble of Iranians to criticise the secularism of Turkey but the picture in Iran or Saudi Arabia is also not very pleasing. Remember you dont need to preach the converted by your actions but actually the rest of the audience, the kind of stories that come out of Iran and Saudi Arabia are not something that do justice to very name of Islam, where the emphasis seems to be on punishment and torture rather than forgiveness , correction and rehabilitation.