Turkey is a transcontinental country with part of the country west of Istanbul in Europe, and the larger eastern part of the country in Asia.
Thus it is to Turkey's advantage to manipulate the European vers Russian political tension to further its own agenda and goals. ...
Oh by the way. Do you think Muslims should follow the prophet Mohammed or the prophets Osman and Erdogan? Could it not be much more effective to find "the true Quran" again - before everyone continues to misunderstand the contextless nonsense Osman had produced with the help of the word of Mohammeds? The caliph Osman had even arrested Aisha - the mother of the believers - because she tried to correct some of his worst mistakes about Mohammed, when Osman wrote the Quran. So I would not say the Quran is a very reliable book.
And long long years ago I was by the way convinced Germany should forbid Erdogan to visit Germany any longer. At this time he was not a very popular politician, but every time when he came to Germany he brought nothing else than hate speech. And hate speech is still to today the nature and the centre of all the nonsense, which he produces. And whatever someone might believe about god - no one really thinks hate speech is an element of the speech of god. How is racist hate speech (for example against Germans, Arabs and Kurds) be able to be in the near of the real words of Mohammed?