Saving Yemen shoulder to shoulder with Sisi

?Eat a big mouthful, but don?t make big promises,? a Turkish saying goes. Our ancestors were right, weren?t they?

What were we saying yesterday about Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi? We were saying he was ?a dictator, coup stager and murderer.? We said we would not sit at his table.

Remember the ?Rabia? signs of the previous election campaigns? What kind of ambition, determination, enthusiasm and arrogance did those fingers showcase at rallies?

The tears that were withheld from each of our children killed during Gezi, were kept, accumulated and shed in buckets, with some accompanying compassionate words, for the children dying in Cairo?

Those were the days when they couldn?t put a foot wrong. They were the older brother of the Middle East, the ?guardian,? boasting about this at election rallies? Those mighty days when there were attempts to wipe away the whole republic to set up a supposedly New Turkey?

We were the self-declared respected leader of the Middle East, like the film character Polat Alemdar? You remember, right?

Leave the past in the past and let us look at today: Saudi Arabian, Egyptian, Moroccan, Kuwaiti and Jordanian planes are bombing Houthi positions in Yemen. We are ?kind of? supporting this move; I don?t know how to call this, ?arm in arm? with el-Sisi?

Iranian soldiers are fighting to save Mosul from ISIL.

The world media is filled with sagas of Iranian generals fighting at the head of their armies to save Mosul, and Kurdish woman fighters on the front to save Kobane from beheading Islamists.

While they are growing, we are shrinking?

Jordan has become one and stood up against ISIL that torched their pilot alive. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...