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be saying that if Turkestan, the pan-Turanian Union, had become a reality at
that time. What we have today, of course, is the work of Nursultan

Nazarbayev, which has been around for some time. There is talk of the estab-
lishment of a Turkestan [pan-Turkish] Union. What do you think of that?
AD NAN OK TAR: There is only one union. That is the Turkish-Islamic
Union. It rests on the most perfect, most splendid, powerful and credible
foundations. This is a just union acceptable to and including everyone. It will
defend Armenians within the Turkish-Islamic Union. And Israelis and Jews.
And Buddhists. And atheists. It will protect and embrace them all. But if one
only wants this kind of Turk or that kind of Turk, then that is corruption.

There can be no such thing. There are no different kinds of Turk. Turks are
Turks. Wherever they may be in the world, they are brothers. There can be
no diversity within Islam. They may be Sunnis, or Shiites, as in Azerbaijan.
Or they may be Wahabbites. Or Alawites. But they are all our brothers. None
of the separatist definitions can be accepted. We shall unite them all togeth-
er, inshaAllah.
ASIA RFA: When we speak of Turkestan, the Turkic Republics that
have emerged from Russia after a century. In the old times when you were
speaking of a Turkish-Islamic geography, it was places like Bukhara and
Samarkand that have been the centers of Islamic civilization, but these are
now a society that have been exposed to communist materialism, Darwinist

education, for a hundred years. But now Islam is there. What kind of infra-
structure does the Turkish-Islamic Union have there? What is your view of
the conception of Islam there? In other words, how feasible is the union?
AD NAN OK TAR: The Turkic states were purer, more honest and bet-
ter during the Communist period, as they had not yet been corrupted. The
effect has been a completely opposite one. Go to East Turkestan, for instance,
and you will see delightful people there. There are highly virtuous, pure
Muslims there. Women or young people, they all possess immaculate Islamic

moral virtues. Muslims have degenerated in many places, but not there.

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar