TURKPULSE No:109
TURKEY’S
PLACE IN BUSH’S “WITH OR AGAINST” CRITERIA
TURKPULSE No:109
TURKEY’S
PLACE IN BUSH’S “WITH OR AGAINST” CRITERIA
The Damascus conference of Iraq’s bordering countries last week was an excellent measuring-stick in determining Turkey’s place in Washington’s appraisals of other countries under President Bush’s criteria, “you are either with me or against”. Of the seven participants, six bordering countries plus Egypt, two (Kuwait and Jordan) were blindly with or for the United States, two (Iran and Syria) were equally against it and the remaining three, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, were less clear in their distances to Washington. For an objective analysis of Turkey’s place therein in the light of the “strategic cooperation” nonsense between Turkey and the United States, please see the article below.
TURKPULSE No:110
BOMB ATTACKS
IN ISTANBUL WILL TERMINATE TERRORISM
Two bomb attacks in Istanbul on 15 and 20 November 2003 have been, at Turkey’s initiative, declared by the UN Security Council a threat to peace and security. This unanimous Security Council resolution (1516 dated 20 November 2003) is bound to lead all countries to combat all forms of terrorism in a way to put an end to the Turkish Government spokesman Cicek’s complaint that Turkey’s friends and allies are shedding crocodile tears by sending messages of condolences to Ankara after having harboured these terrorists. For the highlights of the Istanbul bomb outrages and the impact on both the reshaping of the new Iraq and on Turkey’s international relations and national economy please see the article below.