* Geopolitical Diary: The Deteriorating U.S.-Turkish Relationship...
The USA considers TURKEY a full fledged ENEMY. Turks should Know that fact unambiguously.
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has canceled a planned trip to Turkey. The move comes as Washington is growing more vocal in its calls for Turkey to quickly wrap up its operations in northern Iraq against Kurdish militants — something Ankara says it will do when it is ready..., and it did, when Turkey's interests tell it to. The bickering is raising concerns about the status of the U.S.-Turkish relationship, which once was a pillar of regional security alliances.... But NOW, the USA considers TURKEY a full fledged ENEMY. Turks should Know that fact unambiguously, and the reason being, Turkey's growing interdependent relationship with RUSSIA, in all aspects of trade, commerce and more...
The United States and Turkey have had a strong security relationship since Turkey joined the Allies at the end of World War II. Ankara was an early contributor to the U.S.-led U.N. operations in Korea (sending one of the largest contingents of soldiers after the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, and taking the largest number of Allied casualties after the United States and United Kingdom). The country became a full NATO member in 1952. Turkey’s location made it a vital U.S. ally for controlling Soviet access to the Mediterranean from the Black Sea, as well as serving as a check on potential Soviet moves through the Caucasus to Iran or the Persian Gulf.... but Turkey was never considered a full fledged Partner and a reliable ally, and Turks know that well...
With the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Turkish alliance continued largely unchallenged — even though the pressing reason for its existence had faded — and these states saw little need to redefine their security relationship. On the political front, Turkey began eyeing closer integration with Europe. Long a secular state and perceived by Europe as a potential bulwark against the Islamic nations of the Middle East, Turkey set its political sights on joining the European Union while it began a domestic program of economic growth.... focusing more and more on the natural environment and the interdependence of the central Asian republics and the immediate surroundings of Turkey, and a natural outgrowth of Trade and Cultural relations in the area stretching from the Balkans, all the way to Afghanistan and China.
But no matter how much Turkey does to Help NATO and USA in Afghanistan Kosovo, IRAQ, Iran and more... the USA is never pleased with how much Turkey is providing... and has pushed for Turkey's adherence to the European Union on purpose, in order to foment trouble for Europe and for Turkey... in trying to distract the TURKS from looking East and North/South... and pushing them into looking WEST... All these policies are designed in USA to create critical tensions for Europe, Turkey and RUSSIA....with eyes on RUSSIA.... but these "Covert designs" are best left for another day......
The 9/11 attacks in the United States — and, more important, the U.S. response — began to create frictions in the U.S.-Turkish relationship. Ankara balked at U.S. requests to use Turkish territory for the 2003 invasion of Iraq,and Turkey was proven right all along, particularly considering the unpopularity of the invasion within the Arab and Islamic world and Turkish concerns about the domestic repercussions amid the rising popularity of its religious political movement. The United States carried out the Iraq invasion without Turkey’s assistance, but Washington expressed its displeasure with the Turkish decision...
This decline in relations has continued. Turkey looks at its world very differently now than it did 50 years ago. The Soviet Union is not an ever-present threat, though Russia is pushing back into the Caucasus. Europe is not necessarily the shining beacon it once was. (And the European rejection of Turkish membership is reshaping the focus in Ankara.) The balance of power between Iran and Iraq has been shattered, Saudi Arabia has little military might and Egypt is beginning to take a stronger interest in the region. Ankara sees both an opportunity and a need to assert its interests in its neighborhood.
As the Ottoman Empire, Turkey once held sway over the Middle East, and it remains geographically located to reassert that role, if unofficially. In some ways, the U.S. actions in Iraq are running counter to Turkey’s own designs for the region. Washington’s goal in the Middle East is NEVER the establishment of regional peace, though the United States never espouses such ideals; rather, the primary objective is to ensure that no regional hegemon emerges except USA, either from within the region...I.E. ISRAEL, IRAN AXIS.... or from abroad. Now that Europe has snubbed Turkey, it is looking south and east for its future — and it is running into the United States....
In the short term, Turkey wants to assume a permanent security role in northern Iraq in order to deal with its Kurdish problem. Washington is trying to come up with an arrangement with Iran and the factions in Iraq that will create a relatively stable environment and facilitate a permanent stationing of U.S. forces in IRAQ, and KLEIAT Air Force Base in Northern Lebanon, in order to have a replacement one day for Incirlik.... Turkey’s actions complicate the matter, but Ankara cannot afford to be left out of the final settlement. This is to say that Washington and Ankara are about to become enemies.... precisely because of Washington's grandiose Hegemonic designs... in the New Greater Middle East, the Caucuses, RUSSIA, and way beyond...
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Daily, Global Dis-Information through Faulty and Skewed "Intelligence", Stratfor, February 29, 2008
