Erdogan now Dismal,
Turk’s façade Fizzles!
Congratulations Israel,
Plan of Turkey IS Visual,
Erdogan is snake in Grass,
In old Benedict Arnold Class,
Hope you do not change Mind,
Old Turk Military Saw The Signs,
Erdogan’s Power WITH Iran Allies,
Now keeps military power Demised,
So military coup cannot be Organized,
TO NATO Turks Will Soon SAY Goodbye,
Its union with 9 Islamic toes draws Nigh,
Its Turk advantage to do it is reason Why,
Erdogan promise to remain secular is a Lie,
Will be 1 of 10 Jihad Toes attacking by & By!
February 1, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Since Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded the modern secular Republic of Turkey in 1923, the Turkish military has perceived itself as the guardian of Kemalism, the official state ideology, even though Atatürk himself insisted on separating the military from politics.
The TAF still maintains an important degree of influence over Turkish politics and the decision making process regarding issues related to Turkish national security, albeit decreased in the past decades, via the National Security Council.
The military has had a record of intervening in politics. Indeed, it assumed power for several periods in the latter half of the 20th century.
It executed coups d’etat in 1960, 1971, and 1980.
Most recently, it maneuvered the removal of an Islamic-oriented prime minister, Necmettin Erbakan, in 1997.
On April 27, 2007, in advance of the November 4, 2007 presidential election, and in reaction to the politics of Abdullah Gül, who has a past record of involvement in Islamist political movements and banned Islamist parties such as the Welfare Party, the army issued a statement of its interests. It said that the army is a party to “arguments” regarding secularism; that Islamism ran counter to the secular nature of the Turkish Republic, and to the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The Army’s statement ended with a clear warning that the Turkish Armed Forces stood ready to intervene if the secular nature of the Turkish Constitution is compromised, stating that “the Turkish Armed Forces maintain their sound determination to carry out their duties stemming from laws to protect the unchangeable characteristics of the Republic of Turkey. Their loyalty to this determination is absolute.”
Contrary to outsider expectations, the Turkish populace is not uniformly averse to coups; many welcome the ejection of governments they perceive as unconstitutional.
In the present century, an Islamic-oriented elected administration has been able to break down some of the military’s powers, such that many military officers have been arrested. Some have already been tried, while others are awaiting trial.
I am afraid the military will is no longer able to do a coup d’etat on the Islamic-oriented government now in power, and that Turkish relations with
the West will continue to go down the drain.
Begin Excerpt 1 from Jerusalem Post
‘Erdogan-led Turkey can’t broker talks’
February 1, 2009
haviv rettig gur , THE JERUSALEM POST
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan “has lost all credibility as an honest broker in peace discussions,” a senior Israeli diplomatic official told The Jerusalem Post Saturday night, citing Erdogan’s recent anti-Israel rhetoric.
“As long as he is the prime minister of the country, Turkey has no place in peace negotiations or discussions,” the official added.
“It is not a trustworthy diplomatic partner anymore.”
Until recently, Turkey had played a key role in quiet discussions between Israel, Syria, and other regional players.
The loss of the Turkish diplomatic channel was a serious blow to these discussions, said Foreign Ministry officials.
“The only parties that could reasonably play that mediating role now are the Americans under Obama, or, in theory, a European party,” the diplomatic official surmised.
At the Davos World Economic Forum on Thursday night, Erdogan launched a blistering attack on Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s offensive against Hamas infrastructure in Gaza.
This was followed by an impassioned defense of Israel’s actions by President Shimon Peres, Erdogan’s fellow panel member at the prestigious conference.
When Erdogan tried to respond, he was cut off by the moderator, and quickly stormed off the stage, accusing Peres of lying.
“It’s not that he criticized Israel,” said the Israeli official. “Other countries, such as the French, criticize Israel whenever they see fit.
But Erdogan launched accusation after accusation and did everything possible to be disrespectful, including telling outright lies. He went as far as to publicly shame the president of the state of Israel,” the official said.
The Davos incident was the culmination of a month of angry tirades against Israel by the Turkish prime minister.
Throughout the Gaza fighting, Erdogan blamed Israel alone for the escalation and called for it to be barred from the UN.
He accused Israel of “inhuman actions which would bring it to self-destruction.
Allah will sooner or later punish those who transgress the rights of innocents,” he said.
In a January 13 speech to Turkey’s parliament, he accused “media outlets supported by Jews” of “disseminating false reports on what happens in Gaza, finding unfounded excuses to justify targeting of schools, mosques, and hospitals.”
Began Excerpt 2 from Jerusalem Post
Iran: Give Erdogan a Nobel Peace Prize
February 1, 2009
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
A senior Iranian cleric called on Sunday for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his ‘courageous act’ at the World Economic Forum in which he and President Shimon Peres faced off over the situation with the Gaza Strip, the Iranian state radio IRNA reported.
According to the report, Ayatollah Naser Makerem-Shirazi told a group of theological students that Erdogan had taken a “decisive and crushing” stand against the “atrocities of the Zionist regime in the occupied lands.”
On Thursday, while the two were on stage at the forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Turkish leader lashed out at Peres over the “barbaric acts” committed by Israel during its three-week operation in the Gaza Strip.
Peres then spent 20 minutes explaining the Israeli position, which Erdogan then tried to challenge again. When the moderator told the Turkish prime minister to limit his response to two minutes, the premier got mad and walked off stage.
Meanwhile, in an interview with Newsweek magazine published online Saturday, Erdogan said that Hamas was a political party, not an “arm of Iran,” and that “if the whole world had given them the chance of becoming a political player maybe they would not be in a situation like this after the elections that they won.”
The Turkish prime minister went on to say that the “political will of the Palestinian people” had been ignored by the world, in that the international community fails to “respect” Hamas’s legitimacy.
“Palestine today is an open-air prison,” he said.
In the interview, which will appear in the February 9 issue of the magazine, Erdogan also spoke of indirect negotiations between Israel and Syria, which Turkey brokered last year. He said he was involved in “very intense telephone diplomacy” between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Syrian President Bashar Assad. He segued into speaking of Hamas, saying that the group should have been involved in the Israel-Syria talks.
“Moreover during that talk, I said to Prime Minister Olmert that I believed I could be successful in freeing the kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit,” he added.
Erdogan said he told Olmert that Turkey could have mediated in order to secure Schalit’s release and that Israel would have to free jailed Hamas leaders in return.
Ties have been particularly strained between Israel and Turkey recently due to Erdogan’ s critici
sm of IDF Operation Cast Lead in Gaza and his public spat with Peres.
During the Newsweek interview, Erdogan again slammed the Gaza operation, reiterating his previous accusations of a disproportionate response to Hamas rocket fire on Israel. He added, however, “I’m not saying that Hamas is a good organization and makes no m
istakes. They have made mistakes, but I am evaluating the end result.”
He went on to rebut criticism labeling his recent comments on Israel as anti-Semitic, saying “I have always declared that anti-Semitism is a crime against humanity… my frustration is against the current Israeli government.”
“Everything we have said is against the current Israeli government, nothing against Jews,” he added.
“I have stated very clearly that anyone who even thinks about doing anything against the Jews in Turkey will find me against them,” he said, quipping, “Of course, I’m not going to ask Olmert to write my speeches.”
Asked if Turkey would continue to deal with Israel, he described the Jerusalem-Ankara relationship as “serious,” but added “the current Israeli government should check itself.”
Finally, answering a question on whether US President Barack Obama would “play a more even-handed role between the Palestinians and the Israelis,” he said, “There is no justice right now. We expect justice from now on.”
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Sunday that while Israel had important strategic ties with Turkey, it also had “difficult” disagreements with the country over several issues, including policies regarding Hamas.
Livni told Israel Radio that she expected Turkey to respect Israel’s position despite “hard” pictures coming out of Gaza and the numerous anti-Israel demonstrations in the country.
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