Iron Crescent Of 3 Islamic Toes h as
United!
The Other 7 Toes Are in Process of Aligning!
The 10 are the horns & toes of Daniel 2 & 7!
I have warned about this for some 34 Years!
Now It Has Turned Into A Middle East Reality,
Turkey, Syria, And Iran Are Like IRON Welding,
A Euphrates crescent via Iran + Turkey + Syria,
Is the seat of the kingdom of Satan plus 3 Frogs,
From Revelation 16:10-16 Is Itself NOW Revealing,
At point in time between 2010 & 2015 it is Unvailing!
January 24, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Daniel 2:41-44 – And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. [42] And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. [44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Daniel 7:24,25 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
[25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Revelation 16:10-16 – And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, [11] And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. [12] And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
[13] And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. [14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. [15] Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Begin Excerpt from October 17, 2007 BLOG
Turkey drawing closer to Iran in fighting Kurds and to Syria through Bilateral Ties!
October 17, 2007
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Recent developments, particularly in the last six months, show a very definite trend of Russia and China drawing closer together against the U.S. and Israel as demonstrated by massive military exercises practiced along their borders, secular Turkey returning to its Islamic roots amid contacts with Iran and Syria, and the former Soviet Union countries around the Caspian Sea showing how their majority Islamic occupants are linking with Islam rather then the West. The final act on the world stage is preparing itself for an eventual war in which Israel will find herself driven into the Negev, where she will remain for some three and one half years prior to Armageddon and the Second Advent of Messiah.
Begin Daily Star Article
Assad visits Turkey, may push for help reviving talks with Israel
Compiled by Daily Star Staff
October 17, 2007
Syrian President Bashar Assad arrived in Turkey Tuesday for a four-day visit to discuss regional issues and bilateral ties, Anatolia news agency reported. Assad was to dine with Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul on Tuesday evening ahead of formal talks on Wednesday that will include meetings with Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ali Babacan.
He will also travel to Istanbul before wrapping up his visit on Friday.
Last week, Assad said in interviews with two Tunisian newspapers that Turkey was trying to mediate between Syria and Israel. Turkey has close ties to Israel.
The visit comes weeks after Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike in northeastern Syria near the border with Turkey against a target that remains unknown, though widespread reports say it may have been a nascent nuclear facility, a claim Syria has denied.
Turkey complained to Israel about the September 6 strike because the aircraft dropped fuel tanks on its territory during the incursion. Assad has said the planes struck an empty warehouse, but both Syria and Israel have been unusually silent over the incident.
Turkish-Syrian relations have improved in recent years since a long period of animosity ended in 1998 when Damascus forced Turkish Kurd rebel Abdullah Ocalan to leave his long-time safe haven in Syria. Ocalan was subsequently captured in Kenya in 1999 and jailed for life.
Ankara believes it can use the thaw as leverage to help ease Middle East tensions, drawing also on its close ties with both Israel and the Palestinians.
Turkey’s foreign minister visited both Israel and Syria earlier in October.
“We have told them [the Turks] that our stance toward peace does not change. All we want is a clear declaration by Israeli officials of their desire for peace and the return of [occupied] land to Syria,” the Syrian president said.
– Agencies
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Is Turkey Still a Western Ally?
The AKP’s foreign policy is driven by two new factors: Islam and money.
By Soner Cagaptay
January 22, 2009
From today’s Wall Street Journal Europe
I spent part of 2008 in Turkey to figure out whether Ankara could still be considered a Western ally. That it’s necessary to raise this question at all is an indication of how far the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) has isolated the country from its traditional partners.
For years Turkish foreign policy was driven by shared Western values, including democracy, membership to institutions like NATO and a sense of common destiny with Europe and the U.S. Since the AKP assumed power in 2002, Turkish foreign policy is increasingly driven by two new factors: religion and money.
Over the past year, the neo-Islamist AKP government has hosted a series of anti-Western leaders, including the presidents of Iran and Sudan, with whom Ankara seeks closer relations. At the same time, Turkey has ratcheted up its verbal attacks on its traditional Western allies, especially Israel. While the AKP seems to mirror Western policies toward such countries as Sudan, Iran or Russia, it fosters intimate ties with these governments.
Last July in Istanbul, for example, I witnessed Turkish joy over the capture of Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, the “butcher of Bosnia” who was indicted for genocide at The Hague tribunal. Just days later, however, the AKP welcomed Omar Al-Bashir, the even bigger butcher of Darfur. Ironically, the visit of the Sudanese president to Turkey coincided with The Hague court’s prosecutor request that Mr. Al-Bashir be arrested for committing genocide in Darfur.
Yet President Al-Bashir received a warm welcome in Turkey, where he alleged that his government “had restored peace to Darfur,” and defended the implementation of Shariah law in resolving the Darfur conflict. The AKP, the governing party of a secular state,
did not challenge these statements. Instead, it chose to discuss oil investments in Sudan.
Later on in August, the AKP welcomed Iran’s president to Istanbul. Turkey officially stands against Iran’s nuclear project. But the AKP embraced Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, shutting down Istanbul’s busy beltway for his travel comfort. In another favor to Mr.
Ahmadinejad, the AKP departed from the tradition of having visiting Muslim heads of state pray in the isolated Dolmabahce Mosque which has served as Istanbul’s protocol mosque. Instead, the government allowed him to pray in the central Blue Mosque with thousands of other worshippers, whereupon he put on an anti-American and anti-Israeli show which I had the displeasure of witnessing after attending Friday prayers there.
The Iranian leader left Istanbul happy, with a security cooperation treaty under one arm and a draft treaty for Turkish investments in Iranian gas fields under the other — the latter in violation of Western financial sanctions against Tehran.
Turkish media reported that U.S. pressure prevented the investment treaty from being finalized. Nevertheless, in November Turkey’s energy minister visited Tehran for further discussions on energy deals.
The AKP empathizes with the Islamist regime in Sudan — which it sees as a victim of the West — and with the mullahs in Iran because it sees Turkey in religious communion with these states. In March 2006, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed an Arab League summit in Khartoum, saying, “the West is using terrorism to sell us weapons.” It appears that Mr. Erdogan has finally answered the question of where Turkey belongs — and that in his opinion, it’s not with the West.
On Iran, Mr. Erdogan told a Washington crowd on Nov. 14 that the AKP’s policy is that “countries that oppose Iran’s nuclear weapons should themselves not have nuclear weapons.”
At the same time, the Iranians know how to exploit Turkey’s security concerns. Ankara is upset about insufficient U.S. and European assistance against the terror infrastructure of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq and Western Europe, respectively. Tehran courts Turkish hearts and minds by bombing PKK camps in Iraq and by providing Turkey with intelligence support against the PKK. Financial instincts cement this religious sympathy. As polls show that Turks increasingly value Iran’s friendship, energy and other cooperation projects with Iran will go down well in Turkey.
Energy politics also bring Ankara closer to Moscow. Only days after the U.S. condemned Russia’s invasion of Georgia, calling for Moscow’s isolation, the AKP invited Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Ankara for consultations.
In 2002, Russia was Turkey’s sixth-biggest trading partner. Bilateral commerce has skyrocketed since then, turning Russia into Turkey’s top trading partner in the first half of 2008. Accordingly, few Turks question the close ties with Moscow, and realists point out that Turkey depends on Russia for two-thirds of its gas.
Last but not least, Israel has become Mr. Erdogan’s sandbag while Hamas sits in his heart. Turkey has long had warm ties to the Jewish state, since Turks did not wear ideology or religion on their sleeves in their relationship with Israel. But under the AKP, those relations are getting frostier. The conflict in Gaza has given the AKP an excuse to bring Turkish-Israeli relations to their lowest level in decades. Shortly after Jerusalem launched its offensive, Mr. Erdogan started a disingenuous initiative to “end the war in Gaza,” traveling to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Egypt — but not to Israel.
Mr. Erdogan’s rhetoric, meanwhile, has reached Islamist fever pitch.
Earlier this month he suggested that “Allah would punish Israel” for attacking Hamas, and that Jerusalem’s actions would lead to its own “destruction.” On Jan. 16, he questioned whether the Jewish state should still be allowed in the U.N. While accusing Israel of deliberately attacking civilians, Mr. Erdogan claimed that “Hamas’s rockets are not causing any casualties in Israel.”
His attacks worked. After Mr. Erdogan bashed Israel almost daily on nati
onal TV since the beginning of the operations in Gaza, 200,000 Turks showed up on Jan. 4 in the freezing rain in Istanbul, calling for the “death” of the Jewish state. Pro-AKP papers, meanwhile, question Turkey’s military cooperation with Israel.
Now, Turkey’s tiny and well-integrated Jewish community feels physically threatened for the first time since 1492, when it found safe haven in the Ottoman Empire after fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. There have been threats of violence against Jews and, even more shocking, banners have been plastered on Jewish-owned businesses, asking people to boycott them.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and the European Union face a challenge in Turkey. The country’s messy foreign policy is a harbinger of things to come. Under the AKP, Turkey will increasingly side with its radical, anti-Western neighbors, even if it remains committed, at least verbally, to the West.
I hate to say it, but this is not your mother’s Turkey.
Mr. Cagaptay, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, is the author of “Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey: Who is a Turk?” (Routledge, 2006).
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