TURKPULSE No:124
TURKISH
LYRICAL
HISTORY HELPS ANGLO-AMERICAN DIPLOMACY
TURKPULSE No:124
TURKISH
LYRICAL
HISTORY HELPS ANGLO-AMERICAN DIPLOMACY
At NATO’s Istanbul Summit on 28-29 June, the “Lyrical Performance of History”, the potpourri of Turkish music and art over the centuries, helped the refined Anglo-American diplomacy to emerge from the Iraq quagmire by presenting to top world leaders an excellent Islamic lyrical history blended with Christian and Jewish religious music of Istanbul’s relevant minorities. It was a big boost to the Americans’ Greater Middle East project in that it was a tangible example of the harmony of religions at a time when terrorist efforts, revolving around Al Qaeda, were working hard in creating the clash of religions through unprecedented violence in especially Iraq, taking advantage of the U.S.-led coalition’s enormous mistakes in that country during the last 500 days or so. For the analysis of this intriguing diplomatic story from Turkey’s angle please read the article below.
TURKPULSE No:125
ALL QUIET ON THE TURKISH-AMERICAN FRONT
The famous book on WW I, “All Quiet on the Western Front”, is very much the case for Turkish-American relations today. In the first half of the year top level official visits were exchanged with PM Erdogan’s visit to Washington in January and President Bush’s visit to Ankara and Istanbul a few weeks ago, and not even diplomatic euphony can any longer hide the problems in mutual relations. Even the American Disinformation Mechanism in the Turkish media has forgotten last year’s “strategic alliance” claim in this regard. It all boils down to the USA`s plans and efforts, along with its strategic allies - Israel and the UK to a lesser extent, to create an independent Kurdish State in northern Iraq with Kirkuk as its capital and Turkey’s determination to forestall it at any cost as it is bound to result in an unavoidable blood bath in the region. While this strife continues to empoison mutual relations with the United States due to the West’s greed for oil, as most Turks believe, Turkey is taking drastic steps that may push oil and natural gas out of world markets in a decade or two. It may also put an end to all this struggle over “A Century of War”, another excellent book by F. William Engdahl about the British occupation of Baghdad on 11 March 1917, and “Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order”. For the details of these exceedingly interesting developments for the new millennium please read the article below.
TURKPULSE No:126
FRESH STEPS
IN TURKEY’S EUROASIA POLICY
In the second half of the 20th century, the civilised world found a remedy to “the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind,” as the UN Charter puts it in its preamble, and this remedy was European integration. One deviation from that principle in Europe during this period was Bosnia-Herzegovina where Milosevic and his cronies unwisely tried Hitler’s racial cleansing methods to purge Europe from Muslims. They ended up in their current plight when Turkey firmly put down it foot and when President Clinton’s United States wisely made a volte-face and left the Serbian adventurers alone with their human rights violations and war crimes. Today Turkey’s European accession and Eurasia policies are undergoing a similar process in their attempts to save humanity from the scourge of war by using in its region the same methods as France and Germany are practicing in Europe. Hitherto it has not been able to forestall the war in Iraq, nor similar tragedies in the “Great Game” in Afghanistan, but there are significant indicators proving that the Bush team’s so-called “Greater Middle East ” policy will encounter even a much tougher resistance with Turkey’s active role if it is tried after the U.S. election in November. Please see the article below for details.