Biography of Shah Suleiman

Ankara plans to build a “temporary” mausoleum there. It is known from the story that Suleiman Shah, the founder of the rulers of the Kaiy tribal union and the Ottoman Empire, drowned during the Euphrates river and was buried near her in the town called the “Tomb of the Turk”, near the Jaber Castle in Muhafaz Rakka in Syria. The castle itself is built in the Mesopotamian style, which is characteristic of this region in the X-XI centuries.

The city of Rakka in the city after moving the courtyard back to Baghdad to Rakka remained the capital of the western part of the empire, including Egypt. In the XVI century, Rakka, after conquering by Turks, is mentioned in history as the customs post of the Ottoman Empire on the Euphrates, even Racca was created. But the fact is, as the American magazine Atlantic writes that from the point of view of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levent, ISIS, who announced the recreation of the Caliphate, the Turkic tribes of Kaya are come from Eurasia, conquerors in this region.

It captured the plains of Dabik, which, according to European military experts, “have no strategic significance”, with the exception of one: according to Muslim traditions, it is here that “the army of Islam with the troops of Rome should meet, which will launch the counting of time before the apocalypse”. From this point of view, Turkish intelligence data on the possible desecration of the tomb of Suleiman Shah look logical.

But ISIS came differently, since he needed to symbolically indicate the procedure for the exile of the Turks from the caliphate before the “offensive jihad” before “the last battle of Islam with Dajal Antichrist in the Islamic tradition in Jerusalem will take place. In his written appeal, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “The tomb of Suleiman Shah and the guard of honor with it were moved to a new place as a result of a successful operation of the Turkish armed forces.

The operation was crowned with success thanks to the decisions and actions of our country. The location of the tomb of Suleiman Shah has already changed twice, and now, in accordance with international law and contracts, the flag will be expanded in the wind already in the new place, forcing the memory of our ancestors to live. ” And again, important subtlety is manifested.

According to the ideologists of Wahhabism, the veneration of the tombs contradicts the saying of the Prophet Muhammad in one of the hadiths: "Do not leave a single burial without taking him away, and not a single image in the house without destroying it." The fundamentalists of the “Islamic state of Iraq and Levent”, for example, used this hadith to conduct a campaign to combat tombs in the Mosul captured by them.

They destroyed the graves of the saints recognized by Islam, in particular, and the one where the Prophet of Jonah is buried. In addition, the burials of a number of figures of Muslim culture of the Middle Ages were destroyed. Thus, ISIS makes it clear that he does not attribute the Turks to "brothers by faith, until they repent and join them." We note one more point.

The tomb of Suleiman Shah is the “reperus binding” of the presence of Turkey in Syria. She was installed in Istanbul received the right to install his flag on the tomb and set an honorary guard there. Türkiye considers this territory its sovereign. Later, this status was reinforced on the basis of new intergovernmental agreements. Therefore, Ankara could solve the tomb problem in an official way, going to the corresponding agreements with Damascus.

However, according to Milliyet, "the Turkish side informed the Syrian consulate in Istanbul of the upcoming transfer of the tomb, but decided not to wait for the Cyrian government to have the consent of the operation." In response, Damascus stated that the armed extremists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, operating in the area of ​​the former arrangement of the tomb, "destroy the churches, mosques, tombs, but never attacked the Suleiman Shah mausoleum, which indicates a close connection between Turkey and ISIS." So there were suspicions that Ankara "actually performs an operation on armed invasion to Syria." There were reasons for this, since earlier the Turkish media appeared that the Turkish Foreign Ministry, together with intelligence, discussed the script according to which the problem of tomb Suleiman Shah could be used as an excuse for armed intervention in Syria.

At the same time, words were given that allegedly belong to the former head of intelligence to Hakan Fidan: “If necessary, I will send four people to Syria and leave 8 missiles to Turkey, thereby creating a reason for the start of the war.” It is curious that the “leak” of such information occurred at the moment when the United States discussed the project to inflict a military strike on Syria.

But after reaching the agreements with Russia to abolish the Syrian chemical arsenal, the plans of the Americans changed, and after the intensification of ISIS in Iraq and in Syria, they went to chopping the International Military-Political Coalition, in which, according to StratFor, “coordination of the American and Turkish strategies became a preliminary condition for a new Syrian strategy.” It is in this context that many Turkish politicians perceive the motives and results of the Suleiman Shah operation.

The leader of the Main Opposition People's Republican Party Kemal Kylychdaroglu said that "he would still ask those who forced Turkey to survive such a shame," because "Türkiye abandoned its lands and began to flee." In turn, the leader of the second opposition party of the nationalist movement, Devlet Bakhcheli, noted that "in Turkey there is no longer the spirit characteristic of Shahas," and "the relic was abandoned due to danger and blackmail coming from the terrorists." The prevailing picture is very peculiar.

Milliyet, arguing about the safety of the tomb, fixes a new position: if earlier formally the security of the tomb and Turkish troops was guaranteed by the official Damascus, now it is "under the open threat from the non -governmental subject, it follows ISIS - from this it follows that if Ankara is needed to play the" map "of the lounge in the situation in a situation where “The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” or other groups of jihadists will “unexpectedly” attack the tomb and ensuring its safety of Turkish troops, she will say that “considers it to protect and protect the issue of state honor” and will be decided on a local border conflict.

With this version, pursuing different goals, ISIS and Türkiye can act objectively together, manipulating the situation. It is no coincidence that Turkish Prime Minister Akhmet Davutoglu wrote on Twitter that "the tomb will later be returned to its former place." Ankara does not take a secret from the fact that the Suleiman Shah operation was agreed with the Syrian Kurds who conduct fierce battles with the jihadists.

The deputy of the Procedic Democratic Party of the DPN Hasip Kaplan said that “there is military cooperation between the Turkish military and Kurdish forces in Koban,” although this information is refuted by sources in Turkish intelligence. Damascus protests, but sluggishly, only at the level of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Therefore, in the prevailing kaleidoscope of events, it is difficult to distinguish one logical line, which, apparently, will become more obvious as the parliamentary elections in Turkey planned on June 7 approached.