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Al-Ba'th (Syrian Ba'th party-owned newspaper) , Syria
June 27 2012
In Front of the Turkish Brothers
by Dr Abd-al-Latif Imran
[Translated from Arabic]
Yesterday, you heard, and we, too, heard a host of fallacies that are
no secret to both of us, which Mr Erdogan spoke about while he was
suffering from stress and loss at the Turkish parliament.
We used to love that man, just like you did. He did not leave even a
narrow space for truth, honesty, loyalty and hope. Yesterday, the
decision of NATO in Brussels let him down. He, and his foreign
minister who went too far in embroiling him and embroiling Turkey in
wrangling and policies that are useless, should have known that NATO
leaders have stressed time and again the difficulty and danger of
military intervention in Syria. He should also have realized the
previous disappointment by the West when he exerted great efforts for
his country to join the European Union. His efforts were not only met
with rejection, but also with something more difficult.
The sultan was very tense, and this is a normal result. He insulted
Turkish journalists and analysts and researchers and told them that
their pens were sold and that they were devils who remained silent
about the truth. He quoted a political statement by Imam Ali, who gave
those who opposed his opinion more cruel and ugly descriptions, which
you know about.
Mr Erdogan: You cried for help from NATO when you lost a plane and you
almost lost another as a result of a mistake that you committed, but
you did not cry for help from it when Israel attacked the free men of
Turkey in the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May 2010 and killed them unjustly
and treacherously because the West realized that you performed in a
comedy with Peres at the Davos conference in 2009.
This is why large segments of the Turkish people yesterday said that
what you are doing is "a dirty game supported by Israel and the West
and Qatar, and this is not your first provocative step. There are
previous steps, such as housing gunmen from various nationalities at
training camps and supporting them with money and weapons against the
friendly and brotherly Syrian people. The policy of your party has led
Turkey to the point of a military clash. This is a natural outcome of
an impaired foreign policy. There is no need for this mobilization in
the line of hostility towards Syria as a risk equals suicide, and you
are creating fake enemies and friends in a state of confusion and
loss."
Brother Turks: Yesterday, Erdogan said that Damascus for him is like
Istanbul, and the same goes for the other Turkish and Arab cities. You
know, and we know, this messenger trend that the roaming sultan took
to the Arab League on 13 September 2011, in which he delivered a
sultan-inspired, [Muslim] Brotherhood speech that provoked Islam and
the Arabs and the West. It becomes more painful when we all know for
sure that the man is implementing a reactionary Western policy in the
region that hurts the national and Islamic resistance because this
emanates from a functional position that ultimately serves Israel. He
got lost while escalating against it and thus fell into the trap of
arbitrary investment of overlapping cards by which he hurt the Turks,
Arabs, Kurds, Armenians, and Persians. Who is going to benefit from
this?
How can someone who makes the Syrian people bleed and spoils their
coexistence be concerned about them? How can that person be an honest
adviser when he is destroying the Adana agreement of 1998, which was
developed and documented between 2009 and 2010? He has also destroyed
what was accomplished of the announcement to set up a high-level
strategic cooperation council on 16 September 2009 and the signing of
51 agreements for great cooperation between the two countries in 2010.
All of a sudden, he woke up weeks later to realize that the Syrian
Government does not enjoy sufficient popular confidence. Then, he
started shouting in an improper way against the established and
accomplished relations of brotherhood and cooperation between the two
peoples.
Let us together examine the fallacies that Erdogan is seeking to
establish after we learn that the volume of trade exchange in 2010
between Syria and Turkey was many times more the volume of exchange
with Iran, and the figures tilt in favour of Turkey by a large
percentage.
You do not forget, and we do not either, the days of clear air when
the Syrian political leadership realized the dangers of international
alliances and polarization against our common issues. So it put the
heaviest regional and international cards in the Turkish bag after
succeeding in transferring them from the international community,
especially the track of peace in the region. It thus gave precedence
to Turkish sponsorship and made Turkey an important strategic weight
in regional integration and stability. It gave Turkey a free penalty
kick, but Erdogan missed it and Davutoglu spoiled it. Both men created
an internal Turkish rift and a regional Turkish-Syrian rift.
The whole world realizes today that the alleged spring has become a
chance to attract Al-Qa'idah and the jihadist and Salafi fighters and
that Turkey is supporting those people. It formed, trained, and armed,
with Qatari-Saudi funding, the so-called Free Army and facilitated the
entry of terrorist elements from different nationalities. The
objective of this is not freedom, reform, or peaceful rotation of
power, but to settle a reactionary and Atlantic score with a skilful
regional player, which has remained, and will remain, strong,
principled, and honest. It is Syria, with the strong bond between its
people, army, and political leadership. In spite of the crisis, more
than two thirds of the peoples of the earth stand with it, while
Erdogan is pushing Turkey into an Arab and regional loss and gamble.
June 27 2012
In Front of the Turkish Brothers
by Dr Abd-al-Latif Imran
[Translated from Arabic]
Yesterday, you heard, and we, too, heard a host of fallacies that are
no secret to both of us, which Mr Erdogan spoke about while he was
suffering from stress and loss at the Turkish parliament.
We used to love that man, just like you did. He did not leave even a
narrow space for truth, honesty, loyalty and hope. Yesterday, the
decision of NATO in Brussels let him down. He, and his foreign
minister who went too far in embroiling him and embroiling Turkey in
wrangling and policies that are useless, should have known that NATO
leaders have stressed time and again the difficulty and danger of
military intervention in Syria. He should also have realized the
previous disappointment by the West when he exerted great efforts for
his country to join the European Union. His efforts were not only met
with rejection, but also with something more difficult.
The sultan was very tense, and this is a normal result. He insulted
Turkish journalists and analysts and researchers and told them that
their pens were sold and that they were devils who remained silent
about the truth. He quoted a political statement by Imam Ali, who gave
those who opposed his opinion more cruel and ugly descriptions, which
you know about.
Mr Erdogan: You cried for help from NATO when you lost a plane and you
almost lost another as a result of a mistake that you committed, but
you did not cry for help from it when Israel attacked the free men of
Turkey in the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May 2010 and killed them unjustly
and treacherously because the West realized that you performed in a
comedy with Peres at the Davos conference in 2009.
This is why large segments of the Turkish people yesterday said that
what you are doing is "a dirty game supported by Israel and the West
and Qatar, and this is not your first provocative step. There are
previous steps, such as housing gunmen from various nationalities at
training camps and supporting them with money and weapons against the
friendly and brotherly Syrian people. The policy of your party has led
Turkey to the point of a military clash. This is a natural outcome of
an impaired foreign policy. There is no need for this mobilization in
the line of hostility towards Syria as a risk equals suicide, and you
are creating fake enemies and friends in a state of confusion and
loss."
Brother Turks: Yesterday, Erdogan said that Damascus for him is like
Istanbul, and the same goes for the other Turkish and Arab cities. You
know, and we know, this messenger trend that the roaming sultan took
to the Arab League on 13 September 2011, in which he delivered a
sultan-inspired, [Muslim] Brotherhood speech that provoked Islam and
the Arabs and the West. It becomes more painful when we all know for
sure that the man is implementing a reactionary Western policy in the
region that hurts the national and Islamic resistance because this
emanates from a functional position that ultimately serves Israel. He
got lost while escalating against it and thus fell into the trap of
arbitrary investment of overlapping cards by which he hurt the Turks,
Arabs, Kurds, Armenians, and Persians. Who is going to benefit from
this?
How can someone who makes the Syrian people bleed and spoils their
coexistence be concerned about them? How can that person be an honest
adviser when he is destroying the Adana agreement of 1998, which was
developed and documented between 2009 and 2010? He has also destroyed
what was accomplished of the announcement to set up a high-level
strategic cooperation council on 16 September 2009 and the signing of
51 agreements for great cooperation between the two countries in 2010.
All of a sudden, he woke up weeks later to realize that the Syrian
Government does not enjoy sufficient popular confidence. Then, he
started shouting in an improper way against the established and
accomplished relations of brotherhood and cooperation between the two
peoples.
Let us together examine the fallacies that Erdogan is seeking to
establish after we learn that the volume of trade exchange in 2010
between Syria and Turkey was many times more the volume of exchange
with Iran, and the figures tilt in favour of Turkey by a large
percentage.
You do not forget, and we do not either, the days of clear air when
the Syrian political leadership realized the dangers of international
alliances and polarization against our common issues. So it put the
heaviest regional and international cards in the Turkish bag after
succeeding in transferring them from the international community,
especially the track of peace in the region. It thus gave precedence
to Turkish sponsorship and made Turkey an important strategic weight
in regional integration and stability. It gave Turkey a free penalty
kick, but Erdogan missed it and Davutoglu spoiled it. Both men created
an internal Turkish rift and a regional Turkish-Syrian rift.
The whole world realizes today that the alleged spring has become a
chance to attract Al-Qa'idah and the jihadist and Salafi fighters and
that Turkey is supporting those people. It formed, trained, and armed,
with Qatari-Saudi funding, the so-called Free Army and facilitated the
entry of terrorist elements from different nationalities. The
objective of this is not freedom, reform, or peaceful rotation of
power, but to settle a reactionary and Atlantic score with a skilful
regional player, which has remained, and will remain, strong,
principled, and honest. It is Syria, with the strong bond between its
people, army, and political leadership. In spite of the crisis, more
than two thirds of the peoples of the earth stand with it, while
Erdogan is pushing Turkey into an Arab and regional loss and gamble.