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9 months ago    |   Tags: Turkey Iran Syria Qatar Assad   |   Notes: 1

Qatar and Turkey's participation in Iran's NAM summit

Forget the value of Ban Ki Moon’s participation at the NAM summit against Israel’s protests, the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani will also likely attend, as well as Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Mursi’s participation makes a lot more sense now. While this doesn’t necessarily indicate a policy shift, it does imply a growing realization on the part of some in the US/NATO/GCC axis that neither a military victory, nor a strategic one whereby Assad is toppled, are anywhere in sight. This is even more so the case considering that Iran will be presenting a proposal to resolve the Syrian crisis on the sidelines of the summit. The Syrian army’s military successes in Aleppo will surely not suffice to defeat the insurrection/civil war/proxy war, but they have strengthened the bargaining position of the Syrian government and its allies. Perhaps the summit will serve as a prelude to a wider regional “bargain” between the major powers, which ultimately, is the only way this conflict ever going to be resolved. More often than not, such deals are only struck after matters reach a tipping point.

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9 months ago    |   Tags: Iran Turkey Syria Assad  

Iran warns Turkey against Syria attack: media | Al Akhbar English


Al-Akhbar English quotes al-Watan newspaper here:

Iran has warned neighbor Turkey that it will meet a harsh response should Ankara carry out any strikes inside Syrian territory, a pro-Damascus daily reported on Monday.

“Any attack on Syrian territory will meet with a harsh response, and the Iranian-Syrian mutual defense agreement will be activated,” the Al-Watannewspaper said.

“Turkey has received very strong warnings in the past few hours and the following message – beware changing the rules of the game,” the paper added.

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9 months ago    |   Tags: Syria Turkey Assad Erdogan Israel   |   Notes: 2

Turkish opposition party leader: Israel sole winner in Syria

Over and above the CHP’s opposition on these grounds and the Turkish Communist Party’s opposition to the AKP’s Syria policy, is the fact that over two-thirds of Turks polled last month by a local think tank, oppose Turkish intervention in Syria, while a majority (including the AKP’s own supporters) believe Turkey should play a more neutral role in the Syrian crisis.

Here is the Hurriyet story:

Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has criticized the government’s policy on Syria, saying that only Israelbenefits from the current situation.

This is because a Kurdish state is in the works, Kılıçdaroğlu said. Turkey’s foreign policy has been focused on removing the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power, without asking what will follow it, he said. “Syria is very important for Russia, too. This was discounted as well,” Kılıçdaroğlu said, adding “our foreign policy has become chaotic.” He accused the government of “play[ing] backgammon on behalf of others,” on the Syria issue. “They don’t know what to do next,” he said.

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10 months ago    |   Tags: Syria Assad Israel Turkey Saudi Arabia Qatar colonized Arabs Hizbullah Hassan Nasrallah resistance   |   Notes: 2

"The gloves are off. The Syrian Information Minister says Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel are responsible for today’s events. This is the first time a Syrian official singles out the conspirators by name since the start of the conflict. Indeed, this is a new stage in the war.
The same Arab traitors rejoicing the killings are also mocking Seyyid Hassan Nasrallah on twitter now. It is sickening to the core to know that if Israel invaded Syria or Lebanon today they would most likely be cheering it, if not publicly (because they still pay lip service to Palestine) in private just as March 14 collaborators did in 2006 as revealed by Wikileaks State Department cables ."

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Erdogan is not a lamb

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11 months ago    |   Tags: Assad Erdogan Imperialism Syria Turkey Zionism farm animals   |   Notes: 3

Is this dude for real? How can anyone read this and not feel nauseous? Earlier he called Syria’s defense of its airspace a “heinous attack” adding “This latest development shows that the Assad regime has become a clear and imminent threat to the security of Turkey…”. Of course, because according to imperialist-Zionist logic, any country which shoots down enemy reconnaissance jets violating its airspace and sovereignty is in fact threatening the security of the offending state which seeks to invade it. Indeed, states which defend themselves from aggressors are “warmongers”:

“We will not fall into the trap of warmongers, but we will not stay silent in the face of an attack made against our plane in international airspace.” Turkey’s “wrath is fierce and intense when it needs to be,” he added.

And then this highly imaginative rant:

“Our rational response should not be perceived as weakness, our mild manners do not mean we are a tame lamb. Everybody should know that Turkey’s wrath is just as strong and devastating as its friendship is valuable.” 

A lamb you are not Erdogan. His words, not mine.

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Third-Wayers and the Turkish plane

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11 months ago    |   Tags: Syria Turkey Assad Third-Wayism NATO imperialism military intervention   |   Notes: 1

Ok so how does a Third Wayer process the shooting down of the Turkish (i.e. symbol of NATO) warplane? However they view this, there must be some complex mental acrobatics at play. I mean I know they staunchly oppose military intervention and would doubtless want this plane shot down by someone. But how do they rationalize the fact that it was shot down by the Syrian Army, in other words the regime? Do they silently cheer on the shooting? Or banish such enthusiasm from their minds/hearts? Or do they wish it was the mythical, Utopian Third Way force in Syria shooting it down and hence reject both the Army and the Turkish plane while supporting the anti-aircraft missile that shot it down?

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11 months ago    |   Tags: Syria Turkey Assad war games memes imperialism   |   Notes: 2
My first meme. Very proud of myself. It refers to Turkish warplane that crashed or was shot down over Syrian airspace.

My first meme. Very proud of myself. It refers to Turkish warplane that crashed or was shot down over Syrian airspace.

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11 months ago    |   Tags: FSA Syrian opposition GCC Turkey Syria Assad civil war   |   Notes: 1

And as proof of Ibrahim Alamine’s prediction here (which I also linked to in a previous post) that the next stage in Syria will consist of GCC-Turkish attempts to “supply them [armed opposition] with new kinds of sophisticated arms. We will see weapons taken out of the Gulf states’ vast stockpiles for tests on Syrian soil”, the video link shows how the FSA is graduating from RPGs to ATGMs (anti-tank guided missiles) capable of destroying tanks. And so the new phase begins…

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11 months ago    |   Tags: Syria Assad GCC imperialism FSA Syrian opposition civil war Turkey military intervention   |   Notes: 4

Gulf States and Turkey Going All-Out Against Syria--Akhbar English

AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ. Arguably the BEST analysis on Syria written so far, by al-Akhbar’s editor-in-chief, Ibrahim Alamine. To date, all of Ibrahim’s predictive analyses on Syria have proven true and if you bear this in mind while reading this piece, you will realize just how much worse the crisis will get and just how far reaching its implications  for the entire region will be:

Excerpts below: 

“ A year and a half into the Syrian crisis, events are being driven by calculations that are not entirely under American control. Turkey and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have acquired their own agendas too. And they are poised to engage fully in the ongoing war in Syria. 

Work is currently underway to link these groups to each other under a joint command overseen by the armed forces of these countries, and to supply them with new kinds of sophisticated arms. We will see weapons taken out of the Gulf states’ vast stockpiles for tests on Syrian soil, and an armed popular revolution proclaimed.

Efforts have been made to prepare northern Lebanon, and other parts of the country, to take part in this showdown, either by providing whatever support they can to the Syrian oppositionists, or by opening new fronts in order to keep Syria’s allies occupied. This can only be done under the banner of sectarian conflict. The Lebanese, like the Syrians and the Iraqis, will be made to pay more in both lives and property.
Most ominous is that the countries now providing open-ended support to the armed opposition in Syria have decided to up the attack with a campaign of assassinations, bombings and disturbances aimed at sowing chaos and extending the conflict to the entire country. This while putting together large brigades of fighters capable of occupying entire districts or towns, and dealing blows to the army and security forces powerful enough to undermine their support for the regime.”

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Erdogan’s BDS-washing

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11 months ago    |   Tags: Syria Assad FSA Turkey imperialism Israel normalization BDS NATO  

Now this what I call classic”BDS-washing”. The drama king himself (still full of himself after his public walkout on Peres at Davos 2009), is now laying out conditions for resuming normalization of ties with Israel, ironically, by talking to an Israeli newspaper: 

“We do not need Israeli tourists. We have succeeded to fill their places, and, in the past year, 31 million tourists visited Turkey,” he told the Maariv daily, during the regional World Economic Forum summit in Istanbul. 

Erdoğan added: “The crisis over the matter of the occupation and relations with Israel is not harming the Turkish economy.” 

During a reception in the gardens of the Dolmabahçe Palace during the WEP conference, Erdoğan told Maariv that normalizing relations between Turkey and Israel is conditional on three steps: “First and foremost, Israel must apologize for the raid by Israeli soldiers on the Mavi Marmara ship two years ago. Also, Israel must pay reparations to the families of the victims. The third condition is that Israel end the naval blockade on the import of goods into the Gaza Strip.” His country would not compromise on those conditions, the Turkish prime minister clarified, even if the crisis between the two nations deepens.”

Puh-lease, spare us the self-serving, pseudo-anti-zionist theatrics, more despicable still coming from a warmonger and neo-Ottoman wannabe imperialist. Yes, BDS is a necessary complement to any military and political resistance strategy, but it can never be a substitute for a genuine anti-imperialist / anti-Zionist foreign policy, let alone a tool for legitimizing imperialism and NATO invasions of resisting countries. In the grander strategic scheme of things, and if one had to make a choice between the two evils, he would be doing Palestine a much greater service if the Israeli tourists remained but he kept his blood-soaked hands off Syria.

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