TURKPULSE No:129
ANKARA’s
DIGNIFIED FURY VERSUS ATTEMPTED BULLYING
TURKPULSE No:129
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.
TURKPULSE No:130
RADICAL
REORIENTATION UNTIL 2013, THE EARLIEST
The next ten years or so will see a radical reorientation for Turkey as no one expects its EU accession to take place before 2013 even if Europe’s answer to Turkey on 17 December will be to start full membership negotiations in the first half of the new year. In this ten year period the key factor to determine world developments of direct concern to Turkey will be the new American Administration’s Middle East policy whether it is called the Greater Middle East or Expanded Middle East strategy. Of course, its national security aspect has already become Ankara’s main preoccupation. About what to expect for and from Turkey and this region in this global reorientation especially covering the Middle East and the Caucasus please see the article below.