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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/erdogan-is-no-turkish-obama-1.384291
No Arab Longing for Return to Ottoman Turkish Rule
(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan told the foreign ministers of the Arab League in Cairo: "The Turks and the Arabs are linked by brotherhood for hundreds of years. We share the same culture and the same faith." Collective memory in Arab countries has not forgotten Ottoman rule, which is blamed for the backwardness of the Arab world. An Ottoman sultanate or modern Turkey is not quite what the protesters in Tahrir Square longed for.