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  • The "Anatolia Eagle" Soars Far From The Star Of David

    THE "ANATOLIA EAGLE" SOARS FAR FROM THE STAR OF DAVID
    Mostafa Zein

    Dar al Hayat
    Tue, 13 October 2009

    Ever since the Justice and Development Party came into power in Ankara,
    many changes took place regarding the Turkish policy in the Middle
    East that went hand in hand with the great strategic transformations
    following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold
    War. Turkey discovered its inner force and ability to play a role
    in its surroundings, based on a reconciliation with itself and its
    history that was despised by extremist nationalists. In addition to
    reconciliation with itself, it strove to make a reconciliation with
    the countries that emerged from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire,
    after it despised its peoples and blamed them for its lagging behind
    and its failure in facing the West.

    Ankara discovered that it can conciliate between its Western trend
    and its relations with the United States, without passing through Tel
    Aviv. This was evident in many stances by Turkish officials, which
    included their objection to the launching of the US land invasion of
    Iraq from their land, and their prevention of US fighters to depart
    from the Angerlik base. It was also evident in their stance on the
    Palestinian cause; after their support of Israel was unconditional and
    criticizing it was prohibited, and after the relations between the
    two countries reached the extent of military and security strategic
    coordination for besieging the Arabs, many obstacles emerged in the
    alliance between them. Turkey strove to maintain Iraq's unity for
    fear of witnessing the separation of the Kurds in the North and the
    formation of an independent state that would reach Anatolia and Syria,
    while Israel encouraged this Kurdish trend and supported it with
    weapons, funds, and training in order to inconvenience Syria and Iran.

    Tensions in the relations between the two countries were intensified
    when Israel waved the threat of activating the Jewish lobby in the
    United States for holding Ankara responsible for the Armenian massacres
    if it continued to criticize its policies in Palestine. This is one
    of the background elements of PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan's withdrawal
    from the Davos Forum to protest against Shimon Peres's "insolence",
    in addition to the continued Israeli training of the Kurds North
    of Iraq. Seymour Hersh wrote in the New Yorker in 2004 that the
    tensions between Turkey and Israel and Ankara's decision to recall
    its ambassador from Tel Aviv were not due to the Israeli policies in
    Gaza but "to the role played by Tel Aviv North of Iraq."

    Turkey's alleviation of the weight of its relations with Tel Aviv
    enables it to play the role of the great regional state in the region,
    starting with the exceptional relations with Syria and Iraq, and
    not ending with the historic reconciliation with Armenia, away from
    the burden of the history of a new state in the region whose only
    concern is to confirm itself through its permanent hostility against
    this region and breaking it down to small sectarian states that are
    linked to it and its policies.

    With the alleviation of this burden, Ankara rejected the Israeli
    attempts to besiege Iran with enemies because of its nuclear program,
    announcing that it previously coexisted with the Soviet nuclear weapons
    and it is currently coexisting with the Russian, Israeli, Pakistani,
    and Indian weapons. It does not see any menace in Tehran's program,
    and is striving with the others to keep it peaceful, without working
    on changing the regime or resorting to striking a blow against Iran,
    which will have catastrophic repercussions in the region.

    The most recent Turkish reply to Israel's hostile policies in the
    Middle East was its refusal to take part in the Anatolia Eagle air
    maneuvers, which led to their annulment by the Uni euvers.

    The "Anatolia Eagle" is soaring away from the Star of David, which
    has accompanied it since the establishment of the State of Israel. So
    until when will it soar?

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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