In the history of nations, interregnums and periods of depression are often followed by periods of resurrection and salvation. There are numerous examples of resurrection and reconstruction in the history of Islam when the Turks were predominant, as dozens of states existed successively in the Turkish historical tradition. The great Muslim depression occurred after the Industrial Revolution when colonization of the Muslim world had begun. At the conclusion of the Turkish War of Independence after World War I, the leaders succeeded to preserve the mainland of the National Pact that would have found a relatively great state from an empire. If we deem the foundation of the Republic under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as the first season of Turkey's establishment, we may consider the endeavors of the last decade for re-founding and re-strengthening the state as the second season of the country's foundation.

The periods of Abbasids and Seljuks established science, wisdom and state tradition in the Islamic world. The Abbasid state and the successive Seljuk state had become cultural basins where Islamic, Western, Indian, Persian and Chinese thought amalgamated. Whenever Islamic thought encountered different religions, cultures and civilizations, Muslim thinkers gained an extraordinary accumulation of science, culture, art and knowledge by fusing different points of view from other places.

In a similar vein, turning into an empire from a tent state, the Ottoman Empire became a center of attraction for Persia in the east, Rome in the west and Egypt in the south. It embraced the scholars that emigrated from the lands of the Safavids to Istanbul, and translated Western masterpieces immediately after their publication. Assimilating Persian, Seljuk, Roman and Egyptian civilizations, the Ottomans established a great empire on the basis of its own values and precepts.

Although the vision of a nation-state is constituted of shallower corridors, the Republic of Turkey is in the process of re-foundation today just like in the 16th century. Instead of the regression and fall of the Ottoman Empire from the 18th century onward, expansion and advancement define Turkey's present. In the process of establishing a new constitution, Turkey is going to choose between two paths.

The first path is following the restricting, exclusive, and problem-creating model of the nation-state while the second path contains a new constitution with a broader vision, utilizing the accumulation of knowledge and wisdom in the world, working for justice and freedom, calling out to everyone who wants their life and property to be protected, and even serving as a model for all states in the West, Middle East and East just like the founding periods of the Abbasids, Seljuks, and Ottomans. Twenty years ago, the Japanese were sending spies to follow the scientific innovations in the West. Today, almost all intellectual and technological knowledge is open to everyone. The ruling elite of Turkey in Parliament could establish a constitution by taking all bodies of knowledge and experience in the world into serious consideration as long as they do not evaluate the situation with prejudices and complexes, simply because the experience of founding a state and a civilization and constructing a new culture and perspective that would assist humanity exists in the history of our nation.