TURKPULSE No:129..........OCTOBER 2nd 2004
ANKARA’s DIGNIFIED FURY VERSUS ATTEMPTED BULLYING
Recent weeks have been the scene of exceedingly sour developments in Turkish-American relations, but as usual the Disinformation-Mechanism-guided “free Turkish media” was far from reflecting the true nature of the whole affair. The result was fresh blows delivered to these delicate relations with Ankara’s silent but dignified fury versus attempts of “bullying by the guilty, Ambassador Edelman”. It concerns the Ambassador’s claim about the 1999 Istanbul earthquake that “unbelievable suggestions and conspiracy theories about it are an insult to the American people.” Below are some of the realities that Ambassador Edelman has provoked Ankara to disclose and the judgement is the reader’s about who is insulting whom: Turkey the American people or the American Ambassador the Turkish nation’s intelligence, i.e. the brain capability.
For an unknown reason, Washington has systematically sent Jewish diplomats to Turkey as ambassador for the last few decades. Turkey neither cherishes hostile feelings towards the Jews, nor is it against Judaism. On the contrary, when the notorious Inquisition of the Spanish clergy persecuted the Jews over five centuries ago they found a new and safe home in the Ottoman lands. Again, when Hitler’s Holocaust committed a ruthless genocide against the Jews only in our life time, several persecuted Jewish Germans took refuge in Turkey and rendered useful services to the fledgling Turkish Republic. The Ministry buildings still in use in Ankara were their doings and several new departments of Ankara and Istanbul Universities were set up by these Jewish Germans. That is why Ankara and the Turkish nation neither paid any notice to this strange “coincidence” of Jewish ambassadors from Washington one after the other, nor, of course, did they react to it.
Some American ambassadors are acting like Zionist militants
This was the case until President Reagan’s ambassador, Strauss-Hupe, arrived in Ankara at his too advanced age (he was over ninety) in the early Eighties and stayed here for too long only to deliver deadly blows to the delicate Turkish-American relations in the post American embargo period. True to the Turkish saying, “Friend speaks out the bitter truth,” Pulse tried to reflect the real Turkish feelings towards Ambassador Strauss-Hupe’s unwise “diplomacy”, which was worthy of a Zionist militant rather than a responsible ambassador of a great nation, but the Embassy led by him managed to misrepresent it to Washington as the “activities, indeed delirium, of an incurable enemy of the United States, the Pulse editor Vedat Uras.”
Leaving aside the personal aspects of this episode two decades ago, Pulse is now feeling the necessity of reminding the American friends in Washington once again that bullying does not pay in dealing with the Turks and that Ambassador Eric Edelman’s recent activities, if not checked, will deliver fresh blows to mutual relations.
What did he do to deserve this warning?
The hoods put on the eleven Turkish soldiers, three Turkish businessmen and an elderly Briton, Michael Todd, in Suleimania on 4 July 2003 may not be the Ambassador’s fault, but it is doubtful that he reflected to Washington the true nature of its impact. The American Disinformation Mechanism may have prevented the world from learning the wounds inflicted on Turkish-American relations by this regrettable event, but I have the Turkish text of Michael Todd’s most descriptive statement about this tragedy. Yet the Turkish and world public opinions have not even heard of the presence of an Englishman in this affair.
An ambassador’s duty is certainly to defend his country’s views and deeds, even if he may not feel the same and may have several reservations. But there is another duty incumbent on a good ambassador and that is reflecting the true nature and feelings of the people and the government to which he is accredited. Some ambassadors go too far in defending the views of the host country and it is jokingly called the “localitus” disease in diplomacy. This pro-host country stance of an ambassador, on the other hand, greatly facilitates his contacts and relations with the host government and enables him to fulfil his duty more easily and properly, for the good of both countries.
Ambassador Edelman’s activities and statements during the recent Telafar crisis between Ankara and Washington were especially noteworthy. He reacted in Ankara to Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul’s public statement that the cooperation in Iraq with the United States could be terminated over this issue and said to journalists that the Foreign Minister must have had no contacts with the military because the Turkish and American soldiers were cooperating closely in northern Iraq. The American military had given the necessary information to the Turkish soldiers there.
The claim was untrue. Abdullah Gul and Chief of the TGS, General Ozkok, were both in Estonia at that time and they had a long tête-à-tête in this Baltic country before the Foreign Minister said what he said because it was the only way to stop the Telafar tragedies.
No one can tell an ambassador what he reports home, neither to a journalist
Ambassador Edelman also persisted in defending the in-practice defunct LISA (Libya-Iran Sanctions Act) about his unprecedented threat to the Turkish Government through the media that if PM Erdogan went to Tehran LISA would go into action against Turkey. This threat did not prevent the Prime Minister from going to Iran and now President Khatemi is going to pay a State visit to Ankara with possibly a small delay, with or without American doing. Foreign Trade Minister Kursat Tuzmen said to Hurriyet (29th) last week that he would make a “landing” on Iran with 500 businessmen with the end in view of increasing the mutual trade volume to $10 billion. Of the 650 foreign companies from 35 countries at the current International Industrial Fair in Tehran, 220, i.e. one-third, are Turkish. And where is LISA that the Ambassador claims to be in force? The answer may be, “We’ll see.” So I’ll leave it there with the belief that if Ambassador Edelman wants to serve his country and Turkish-American relations he should remind Washington that such sanctions do not work with the Turks.
Twenty years ago Ambassador Strass-Hupe induced the United States to repeatedly apply to the UN Office of Geneva for sanctions against Turkey with the nonsensical claim that Turkey had banned the Bible from entering the country. Today the State Department has issued an official report, certainly on the basis of Ambassador Edelman’s reports from Ankara, claiming that widespread systematic torture is still continuing in Turkey. This official American report, which was obviously intended to put a spoke in the wheel of Turkey’s EU accession at a time when Washington was officially supporting the accession, stirred up enough trouble in Brussels and the EU had to send a team to Ankara to investigate the charges. It concerned 32 cases of alleged torture or manhandling on the part of the Turkish police. The EU team headed by Matthias Ruthe, Chief of Turkish affairs of the EU Commission, dismissed these charges of systematic torture after careful scrutiny. Legal action is underway in each case. In a country with a population of 72 million such complaints of 32 cases is only normal. The wrongdoing by the policemen will definitely be punished by the Judiciary in Turkey was the result attained by the EU team, different from the State Department’s claims.
All this “Edelman diplomacy” coincided with an American campaign against MIT in the Turkish and American media. One of the one-time top MIT chiefs, Mehmet Eymur, has for years been revealing the names of Turkish intelligence officers with distorted charges about secret past events apparently in an attempt to get rid of the present MIT administration let by Atasagun, who had been assigned by the then PM Mesut Yilmaz in late 1997. These activities run from Washington with undeniable financing and support of the CIA to Eymur went as far as setting two important Turkish official organs, MIT and the Judiciary, against one another in recent weeks.
The approaches to Washington by Ankara about these intolerable subversive activities always receive the same answer: “the press is free in the United States. The American media can freely use unclassified data and information.”
The last straw of Ambassador Edelman’s unusual diplomatic activities in Ankara was an article he wrote in Hurriyet which made most Turks in the know utter in impatience a Turkish saying, “Hem suclu, hem guclu” (Both guilty and bullying) and certain “open intelligence” materials appeared in the Internet press to prove the fallacy of the Ambassador’s claims.
Yes, the 1999 Istanbul earthquake is, beyond any doubt, American doing
On the third anniversary of Nine-Eleven, which happened to be the 31st anniversary of the CIA’s toppling and killing a democratically elected president, Salvador Allende of Chile, the mass circulation daily “Hurriyet” published Ambassador Edelman’s article headed, “These conspiracy theories are an insult to the American people.”
The Ambassador says in his article that the United States has always been behind Turkey and supported it in its 20 years of fighting against the PKK terrorism. Yet the Turkish media put forward “unbelievable suggestions and conspiracy theories” against the United States and these conspiracy theories have recently gone as far as accusing the United States of having perpetrated the Istanbul earthquake in 1999 by using “tectonic weapons”. He goes on, “These nonsensical claims deliberately distort the intentions of the United States and exaggerate its might.”
A simple visit to Golcuk where the Turkish Naval Base is located, and contacts with local people show that everyone in Golcuk is blaming the Americans for the 1999 earthquake, not because the Turkish Government and media brainwashed them as Ambassador Edelman seems to believe, but because of what they saw with their own eyes on August 17th, 1999.
“I saw a very big ball of fire stretching as large an area as from Golcuk to Avcilar,” they testify. They also heard a loud explosion before the earthquake and witnessed certain strange lights in the sky like fireworks, especially a “blue fireball” or a “bright green Chalcedon.” During the earthquake, a lightening-like electric flow over the warships was noticed. After a while it was “unloaded” into the sea with a great thunder just above the ships. It was in total accord with American scientist Tesla’s theory that it was possible to deliver a deadly blow to any point on the earth by transferring electric energy in the atmosphere.
Forty days before the earthquake, on July 10th, a Canadian scientist, Karl Buckthought, told the Turkish magazine Nokta that there would be a 6 strong on the Richter scale earthquake off Saroz Bay. He was approached by the Turks after the earthquake to inquire about the source of his prophesy, but after some vague answers he disappeared.
That night there was a big party at the Naval Base for the 30 August transfers and reassignments in the Navy. At 11 PM all lights went off and the electronic systems broke down at the Naval Headquarters, radios changed stations and fireworks went off by themselves. In retrospect it was taken as proof of the existence of a strong electromagnetic field in that location four hours before the earthquake. Also, the fishermen were surprised to see the following morning that all their nets lowered into the sea for the night`s catch had been burnt. It was pointed out that at the Tsunami disaster in Papua New Guinea Islands on 17 July 1998, tens of thousands of people were burnt to death with a mysterious fire on the sea. The unbelievable explanation of this burning was that “They were burnt by rubbing against the rocks.” There was not even such a flimsy explanation why the Turkish fishermen’s nets had burnt in the sea. It was evidently electromagnetic burning.
Is Ambassador Edelman and his “conspiracy theory” chorus still saying, “These things do not mean much; in the excitement of a terrible earthquake disaster they are normal effects and the claims are far-fetched?” Let us then review past events and official American documents and try to unroll this whole affair within that perspective.
Here are some scientific facts and a potpourri from relevant documents
What Ambassador Edelman calls “tectonic weapons” and what more serious and official American documents call “electromagnetic weapons” (My apologies if there are real differences between the two, that is beyond the reach of my limited military knowledge) are nothing new. Nor are they figments of imagination of “conspiracy theory mongers.” They date back to the turn of the last century (from the 19th to the 20th century) when American scientists invented electricity. Incidentally, it was not Thomas Edison who really invented electricity (the alternating current to which Edison opposed strongly as “too dangerous”), but another American of Serb origin, Alfred Tesla, in the last decade of the 19th century, in the 1890s . Tesla’s “fault” was to invent more than electricity and thus lose the sponsoring of General Electric boss J. P. Morgan. The “Tele-force” technology, i.e. the transfer of energy to long distances anywhere in the world through natural media without cables, i.e. radio and TV broadcasts, was Tesla’s invention.
Another discovery by Tesla was MHD (magnetohydrodynamics). He also discovered with his experiments the technology of mechanic energy transfer to any distance, called “Telegeodynamics.” In 1934 the New York press reported at Tesla’s 78th birthday that he had developed weapons to shoot down aircraft at 200-250 miles. The following year the same press reported that Tesla had invented energy transfer from the crust and forces of the earth and that he could create “controlled earthquakes.” Tesla was quoted by the American press as having said that he could “split the world in two like an apple.”
Edison was not the only one who found Tesla inventions dangerous, but also several other American circles did. Naturally American intelligence and the military could not possibly remain indifferent to them and some of Tesla’s nearly 700 patents have been preoccupying these quarters for the last one century or more.
One of Tesla`s patents involved the electromechanical technology similar to that used by European railway systems to propel “bullet” trains. Under a program called “The CVN 21” (formerly CVNX), the American Navy is now working on aircraft-carriers for the 21st century, as a replacement for the Nimitz Class nuclear aircraft- carriers. This multi-billion dollar ambitious Naval program scheduled to be completed by 2013 includes EMALS (The Electromagnetic Aircraft Launching System) and EARS (The Electromagnetic Aircraft Recovery System).
For decades, since Tesla’s time (1856-1943), the Americans have been carrying out experiments all over the world ranging from the Australian deserts for an “earthquake reduction system” to HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) in Alaska; from Japan to India and finally Turkey, resulting in the 17 September earthquake disaster. For decades the American mutual installations in Turkey, especially the one in Golbasi near Ankara, carried out “seismic intelligence” against Turkey and the 1999 Golcuk earthquake, commonly called the Istanbul earthquake, was an outcome of these activities.
“…And the day came and they wanted to test this system in Turkey. This region was in fact under seismic intelligence for years… At that moment four military aircraft were taking off from Israel’s Ben Gurion, Lord airport and two cargo aircraft were escorting them. Two minutes later the Israeli Naval Forces and all the units under the South Sea Air Command of NATO were brought to DEFCON 4 alert position. And ships attached to the American Sixth Fleet were ordered by the Pentagon to change their course to Istanbul…”
The above is not a scenario fabricated by Pulse for its conspiracy theory for the 17 August 1999 Istanbul earthquake, but Fortune magazine’s article in the United States about this earthquake which claimed the lives of over 18,000 innocent Turks along with untold material damage.
DEFCON 4 mentioned in the American magazine’s article concerns NATO’s five DEFence CONditions. DEFCON I is “maximum force readiness” and it has never been resorted to hitherto. DEFCON II was first implemented in November 1962 during the Cuban crisis and very seldom afterwards. Even in the Middle East War between Israel and Egypt/Syria in October 1973 US forces went on DEFCON III alert status, as possible intervention by the Soviet Union was feared. So DEFCON IV used at the “Night Falcon” naval exercises in the Mediterranean by the Turkish, British and Israeli warships just before and during the 1999 Istanbul earthquake was a very high alert position described as, “Normal, increased intelligence and strengthened security measures.”
“We know what you did four summers ago”
On the second anniversary of the 17 August 1999 Golcuk earthquake, the computers of the American Embassy were blocked with identical telex messages showered to the Embassy from various internet cafes like places saying, “We know what you did two summers ago,” named after the American film, “We know what you did last summer.” It has now become, “We know what you did four summers ago.”
And what was it that these university students and scientists know about the Golcuk earthquake four years ago? They only get infuriated by the American disinformation mechanism’s media campaigns that it is scientifically impossible to trigger off an earthquake and try to prove that fallacy with the following facts:
· The then U.S. Defence Secretary, William Cohen, spoke at Georgia University in April 1997 on “terrorist weapons of mass destruction, mass destruction and American Strategy”. He refutes in that talk the claim that creating an earthquake with a weapon is impossible. In fact, back in the early 1970s Turkish engineers and scientists got acquainted with NATO’s activities and research in this direction, first in Adana and then in the Marmara region. They carried on with this work by themselves after the American embargo put an end to it all.
· American legislation, H. R. 2977, expressly names, “plasma, electromagnetic, sonic, or ultrasonic weapons”. And these weapons that were in action on the 17 August Golcuk earthquake are only a small part of the American armament efforts. Others are, (i) electronic, psychotronic, or information weapons; (ii) chemtrails; (iii) high altitude ultra low frequency weapons systems, (iv) laser weapons systems; (v) strategic, theatre, tactical, or extraterritorial weapons; and (vi) chemical, biological, environmental, climate, or tectonic weapons.
· There have been several earthquakes in the world that were artificially instigated and, different from natural earthquakes, they all have the same characteristics as the Golcuk one such as the explosion, proofs of the existence of an electromagnetic area, the strange blue fireball, aerial lights etc. The most prominent of these artificial earthquakes is the one in Kobe, Japan in 1995. The leader of the Japanese Aum cult, Asahara said over the TV on 8 January 1995 that Japan would face an earthquake assault before long with the most probable target being Kobe. Nine days later, on January 17th, 1995, Kobe was flattened by an earthquake. On April 7th, 1995 his right-hand man, Hideo Murai, told a press conference, “There are strong proofs that this earthquake was triggered off by electromagnetic power or someone may have used a machine that set off such a power on the crust of the world.” He also named Tesla electromagnetic pulse, earthquake inducing and plasma weapons. Murai was stabbed to death by three murderers before the eyes of millions of TV spectators. Other artificial earthquakes were in Australia (at the Banjawarn sheep farm on May 28th, 1993), India, Armenia (on 7 December 1988, the last days of the Soviet Union which left the Soviet Defence Minister, Marshal Yazov, in a difficult position on the TV). Other than the last one, which was put down to the Soviets, they were all CIA instigated.
· Following the Kobe earthquake, the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation met with Senator Sam Nunn in the chair and after five months of work on the spot and in Washington prepared a 100 page report. That report in itself is enough to refute Ambassador Edelman’s childish remarks of unwise denials which are an insult to human intelligence. Back in 1960 the Soviet leader Khrushchev said to the Presidium in Moscow about “the advent of a new class of Soviet super weapons”, that they are so powerful that they “could wipe out all life on earth if used unrestrainedly.”
The only excuse for “Golcuk” may be an apology for an inadvertent accident
Ambassador Edelman’s article in Hurriyet was an insult to injury, probably due to the cultural difference of the two nations.
It is not possible to understand what he is trying to deny, anyway. Americans kept out of the naval exercises that day and there were only British and Israeli warships in addition to the Turkish Navy. There is no information about British casualties, but some Israeli officers were also said to be lost in this “accident”. Did the crew of the Israeli submarines know what they were doing when they placed certain devices at the Marmara fault with the intention of “reducing natural earthquakes’ impact” by triggering off artificial weak waves, it is not common knowledge, but it is apparent that the Turks who issued the permit were not aware of the details. They either placed some tectonic explosives or some unknown “tesla coils” or MHD generators to trigger off the earthquake. A 1000 Megawatt MHD generator weighs 42,000 lbs or about 20 tons and it is not too big a cargo. When the detonator was pressed at 3 o’clock in the morning in Golcuk on 17 August 1999 the frightening event broke out to kill nearly 20 thousand innocent Turks. What else can one say at this point other than may they rest in peace with God’s mercy. uras@ada.net.tr - October 2nd, 2004