The other side of the coin is that Turkey is equally important strategically in terms of the fate of the peoples. This is not an exaggeration. With regard to this region, one can say that Turkey is either the future of imperialism or the future of the peoples of the world. Imperialism Would Like a Stable Turkey Imperialism sees this. Turkey is to be given new roles to play so as to be able to bear the burdens of imperialism in this region.
Imperialism wishes Turkey to be a stable military, economic and political springboard.
For imperialism, the world is a gigantic chessboard and the dependent countries are pawns to be positioned in such a way as to secure imperialism's mastery over the world and ensure it can achieve its aims. The expansion of NATO, sending European military forces to dependent countries and the opening of new fronts are a part of this strategy. However, the world-wide crisis of imperialism which cannot be overcome, as well as the crisis in the Turkish oligarchy which also cannot be surmounted because the political and economic means are lacking mean that imperialism cannot realise its policies in these areas. Both political and economic calculations proved unfounded. Examples of this are still quite blatant.