Longing for Ottomans in the Balkans

Azerbaycan Novoye Vremya,  October 6- 2008

Adnan Oktar: The Balkans have always been Ottoman land up until the inlands of Italy. Up until the vicinity of Italy, the whole region was land of Ottomans. Everywhere you see the signs of Ottomans, the beauty of Ottomans. Those places will become a city of peace, a territory of peace within Turkish Islamic Union… Turkish Islamic Union will offer them only abundance, richness and peace. Turkish Islamic Union will offer peace and happiness to Bosnia, to Albania, to everywhere inshaAllah.

Abu Dhabi TV, 19 Şubat 2009

Syria wants to unite with Turkey, and Iraq wants too. And if Syria and Iraq want it, so will everyone else. Azerbaijan and Armenia want to unite with Turkey. Georgia wants to. So what else is left? There will be a union that includes them all, LITHUANIA, ARMENIA, GEORGIA, AZERBAIJAN, KRYGYZSTAN, TURKMENISTAN, EAST TURKESTAN, AS FAR AS LIBYA. A TURKISH-ISLAMIC UNION WILL EMERGE THAT INCLUDES ALL THE COASTAL COUNTRIES OF AFRICA AND THE INTERIOR. TURKEY ALREADY HAS PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE FROM THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, AND THIS TIME THE MISTAKES OF THE OTTOMAN WILL NOT BE REPEATED. Historic errors were made during Ottoman times, and they will not be made again. But the perfect aspects of the Ottoman Empire will be taken on board. Its flawed and deficient aspects will not be included, and a perfect union will be established.