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A prospective candidate for the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in the next election on Nov. 1 has made controversial statements regarding Turkey potentially becoming a caliphate again.
Ömer Sayın, a former AK Party Bolu provincial head and now a prospective candidate for the province, said Muslim countries are counting on only one country for the revival of the caliphate, and that country is Turkey.
Speaking to the public after he submitted his application to become a candidate for the snap elections on Nov. 1, Sayın said: “The caliphate went down in Turkey and will be revived again in Turkey. [Turkey] will become the big brother of the entire Islamic world again.”
A caliphate is a system of rule that follows Islam and is supposed to be responsible for the problems of all Islamic countries. The last caliphate was under the Ottoman Empire and was abolished in 1924 with the emergence of the Republic of Turkey.
Some AK Party supporters like to believe that current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will revive the Islamic caliphate and become a caliph. Turkish media has reported numerous instances when AK Party sympathizers using rhetoric in that regard allegedly with an aim to gain personal profit.
(Cihan/Today's Zaman)
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