TURKPULSE No:7 ON
THE EVE OF ECEVIT’S OFFICIAL VISIT TO MOSCOW
PM Ecevit’s visit to Washington was not an outstanding historical landmark. Will the forthcoming visit to Moscow be different? Ecevit expects stunning and pleasing results from Moscow. Blue Stream is already going on, he says. Fresh economic arrangements are sure to come forth from Moscow, but the real importance is political and strategic for the entire region – the Balkans, the Middle East and especially the Caucasus. The visit coincides with the Iraqi opposition’s New York meeting and the Chechen events. An analysis of these events can be a roadmap for what to expect of the Moscow visit that may prove to be an outstanding event of world importance, on the eve of the new millennium.
TURKPULSE No:8 WEAPONS OF MASS
DESTRUCTION AND TURKEY
Turkey is neither dealing with WMDs, nor is it sleeping about the potential danger from others dealing with them. As security cannot be left to chance, Turkey, with its vital geo-strategic location, had to take measures against the possibility of such abuses and developed its own WMD two decades ago.
TURKPULSE No:9 TURKEY
AND PAKISTAN
- Will the two bosom friends rejoin?
During PM Nawaz Sharif’s time
Turkish-Pakistani relations soured for the first time because of his Taleban
adventure in Afghanistan and Turkey’s active opposition to Pakistan’s being
the centre of Islamic terrorism in Asia. Is General Musharraf’s take-over with
his declared admiration of Ataturk a sign of Pakistan’s return to a more
secular regime? What will be its impact on world history? Who is behind the
Pakistani coup? What might be the outcome of the new Pakistani leader’s recent
visit to Turkey? For the devil in the details of these questions see the article
below.
TURKPULSE No:10 NEW PAKISTANI
RULER AND TURKISH POLITICAL MODEL
Ambassador Gejandra Singh
(Guest Writer)