The frequent description of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as harboring “neo-Ottoman” ambitions for his country clearly implicates this rivalry. It was the Ottomans who brought down two historical Saudi/Wahhabi states.
土耳其总理埃尔多安经常被提及怀揣“新奥斯曼”雄心，这凸显出两国的对立。历史上，奥斯曼帝国灭掉过两个沙特/瓦哈比派国家。第一个国家（1745—1818）由埃及的穆罕默德·阿里（Mehmet Ali）在奥斯曼帝国的支持下毁灭；第二个国家（1824—1891）也由奥斯曼帝国打败。