New York, Sept. 25, 2025
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speech at the UN General Assembly this year drew more clicks than Donald Trump’s on the UN’s own news site. That, says analyst Rizvan Huseynov, speaking on the Novosti Kavkaza YouTube channel, is no accident.
Erdogan arrived in New York not just as Turkey’s president but as a self-styled spokesman for Palestine and, increasingly, for the Muslim world.
His slogan “The world is bigger than five – a just world is possible” flashed across screens in Times Square, turning into a rallying cry for governments disillusioned with the postwar order.
Huseynov argues that the recent wave of recognitions of Palestine is far more than a symbolic move. By grounding it in international law, it opens the door to political, even military cooperation with Ramallah within the 1967 borders. He points to London and Ankara as the driving forces behind the push, noting how Spain froze military ties with Israel and Italy sent a naval escort for a Gaza aid flotilla. For him, the bigger picture is that the so-called multipolar world is already collapsing into two camps – as in physics, current only flows between plus and minus.
In that emerging map, Turkey’s weight is rising fast. Its defense industry, battlefield experience and links with Azerbaijan, Pakistan and Arab partners make it a regional cornerstone. Ankara’s decision to pursue its own nuclear research, Huseynov says, is the logical next step. On the Middle East chessboard, Turkey has become unavoidable. The dividing line will be where countries land on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – and Turkey has made itself the trigger for a new regional security architecture.
Huseynov also singles out Britain. If America still has brute force, London retains intelligence – the networks, influence and political engineering. That is why he predicts closer ties between Donald Trump and Erdogan. Washington, he argues, needs Ankara as a middleman to re-enter the Middle East on workable terms.
The technology race adds another layer. Robotics, AI, 3D production, biotech and renewable energy are rewriting global hierarchies. China may be moving faster on finance and digital currency, but it lacks heavyweight allies. Turkey, by contrast, combines nimble diplomacy with an expanding industrial base, letting it punch above its size.
Europe, in Huseynov’s view, won’t be saved by Paris or Berlin. The real backbone is in the east and north: Ukraine, Poland, the Nordics and the Czechs, whose militaries and industries are battle-ready. Western Europe, he says bluntly, is too soft for the coming storm.
Russia and China, meanwhile, are boxed in. Moscow is too depleted to front an anti-China coalition, while Beijing has money but no peers to carry the load. Iran, he suggests, is inching toward compromise, with part of its elite looking to join rather than fight the emerging Turkic-led framework.
His conclusion is stark: the rules set in 1945 broke down in 1991 and the consensus has since dissolved. The world is no longer debating “multi-polarity.” It is sliding into two blocs. Those blocs will either strike a new deal or clash head-on. And in that moment, Erdogan is not a sideshow but an architect. His words carry farther today than ever before.
Source: Novosti Kavkaza (in Russian). Full video here
