Will Turkey be complicit in another war against another neighbour?

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Columnist Umur Talu explains what this 'special relationship' entails:

"French Prime Minister Sarkozy, who 'doesn't want Turkey in the EU', but clings to the USA and Israel and 'wants an attack on Iran' will adopt a 'carrots and sticks policy' towards Turkey. In other words, he will use the EU as bait for our territory, airspace and bases." [19]

In fact, that Turkey became a NATO member in 1952, yet has been denied E.U. membership since the creation of the European Union is quite telling. The US and the leading EU countries have a common policy towards Turkey: They are using the PKK, accession to the EU, resolutions on the 1915 Armenian Genocide as trump cards to bring Turkish public opinion into line with the US and EU foreign policy goals.

The following statement by US Democrat Brad Sherman is rather odd given the joint US-Turkish complicity in the ongoing Afghan and Iraq genocides as well as the prospect of another genocide in Iran:

"For if we hope to stop future genocides we need to admit to those horrific acts of the past." [20]

After all, the world's leading powers are quite adept at using past genocides/mass murders as an excuse to carry out their own genocides. [21]

'TURKISH GLADIO' STILL AT WORK

Daniele Ganser, the author of 'NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe' (I) , explains an ongoing pattern across the NATO member countries:

"During the last 50 years the United States have organized bombings in Western Europe, [Greece and Turkey] that they have falsely been attributed to the left and the extreme left with the purpose of discrediting them in the eyes of their voters. This strategy is still present today, inspiring fear of Islam and justifying wars over oil." [22]

Since the beginning of 2007, bombings, assassinations, murders, foiled plots, ultimatums to the government by the armed forces, constant speculation of an imminent coup, inland and cross-border warfare with the PKK, 'colour revolutions' (II) style staged democracy demonstrations, high-profile police operations, new anti-terror legislation have dominated Turkish public opinion.

"The detention in Istanbul [in late January] of alleged members of a shadowy Turkish ultranationalist group has revived charges that elements within the Turkish security apparatus have long tried to destabilize the country through a campaign of bombings and assassinations. These allegedly include false flag operations [III] that have been attributed to Kurdish separatists and violent Islamists [sic] ." [23]

The assassination of the leftist investigative journalist and columnist Ugur Mumcu in 1993 was seen by Turkey's secular establishment, media and armed forces as an opportunity to galvanize anti-Islamic feelings in general and anti-Iranian feelings in particular. The assassination was blamed on Iran, who allegedly used the (Turkish) Hezbollah as a pawn.

In reality, the (Turkish) Sunni Hezbollah has very little in common with its namesake in Lebanon and it is an established fact that this group was created and used by Turkey's paramilitary establishment against the PKK during the 1990s. In fact, on the 15th anniversary of the assassination last month, Mumcu's solicitor brother Ceyhan Mumcu made the following call to the public:

"Let's be careful from now on and do not claim that Ugur Mumcu was murdered by Iran. Although I've been reiterating this point frequently, unfortunately some people are still giving statements to the contrary to the press. According to my research, US took the decision to murder him in May 1992." [24]

Recently, news items on (Turkish) Hezbollah have once again started appearing in the Turkish media. There are grounds to interpret this as part of a subtle psychological operation to set Turkish public opinion against Iran.

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Cem Ert�r is a Turkish interpreter and translator. He grew up in Istanbul, studied in US, France and Germany and moved to London about five years ago.

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