The guy visited many countries in Europe and Asia. They say travelling the world and seeing so many cultures opens peoples minds but clearly not this guy. The bizzare thing is he had very positive things to say about Pakistan.
My feeling is and I know this is really wild speculation that he already had unstable mind that was influenced by racism which is endemic in Australia. His visits to Balkans in particular Bulgaria and Turkey exposed him to the historical rivalry between Christians and Turkish Muslims. He went on about Istanbul [Constantinople] returning to Europeans and the Turks restricting themselves to east of the Bosphorus or hell would visit the Turks.
Thus it is reasonable to assume from his 'radical footprint' that he was radcalized by far right Balkan groups as can be seen from the referances he makes. The worse people here are the Serbs who were behind the genocide of Muslims in Bosnia in 1990s.
TRT reported that he might even have been planning a attack in Istanbul.
@KediKesenFare @T-123456
This does not come as a surprise to me.
Turkey in all her political phenotypes - be it the white, secular and Western nation or the Islamic, Middle Eastern and Ottoman state - is and always will be a stark reminder that one Muslim nation had the audacity to turn white Christian Europeans into their slaves and even threaten the most Western pillars of the European civilization.
For many racist Europeans, Turkey is the real life manifestation of their nightmare daring to change the nature of the relationship between Europe and the Middle East. But what's even more important is the uncertainty and uneasiness that we're causing them knowing that a Muslim nation
could change the order.
While this is a worldview revolving around European racists, the majority of the European ruling elite has a different approach towards Turkey, one that is much more pragmatic.
Those who made the decisions in the modern-day Western world knew that Turkey won't fight for them or with them.
See, people often think that we're part of the NATO to support the Western hegemony. This is a wrong assumption.
They made us a member of the Western alliance to ensure that we won't fight them or question the order. The motivation behind this decision is exactly the same angst that is terrorizing White fascists like this guy from Australia.
Our Nato membership is a modern solution to the hatred and fear that Turkey is causing in Europe.
For this particular case, Australians actually know what it means to be defeated by Turkey:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_Day
Çanakkale, Turkey, burial ground
https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/78500/lone-pine-memorial/