Turkey's choice
Turkey has chosen to abandon the West in favor of restoring its Caliphate. Turkey is facing a tough choice: if it wants to emerge as a “First World” economy and a liberal democracy, it needs to protect its interests in the West and expand ties with the United States. Such a choice would dictate both internal and foreign policy priorities, different from policies aimed at becoming a leader of the Muslim and Middle Eastern worlds.We all know what choice Turkey has apparently made.
If, instead, Turkey prefers to be a “Sultan” of the East, it will continue to emphasize the priorities that are now in place: attack Israel, develop ties with radical Islamists from Tehran to Gaza to Khartoum, and irreversibly change the nature of the country.
But perhaps the most interesting thing about this article is that - surprise - anyone who had read his writings before he became Foreign Minister could have predicted that this would be the course that Ahmet Davutoglu (pictured above) would pursue. When will we learn to take people's words seriously?
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Ahmet Davutoglu, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:04 AM
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Iran and the Turkish government are also working together against the non-Muslim world - most specifically against the U.S. and Israel.
Read more about it here: http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=5488&TTL=Who_Will_Win_the_Battle_for_the_Hearts_and_Minds_of_the_Arab_Street:_Turkey_or_Iran?
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