Deterioration of the Turkish – Israeli relationship

By: Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
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[ Posted On: 2007-12-07 ]

A few days after the terrible Isparta airplane crash in SW Turkey that bears witness to undeclared war against Turkey from the part of the US – UK – French political establishments that is controlled by the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge (The Isparta Crime: Undeclared War against Turkey - http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=44840), we get a clearer picture of the escalation that advances rapidly and is meant to trigger a dramatic change throughout Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East in the years ahead.

Last Wednesday, after a five-hour-long meeting of the Under Secretariat for the Defense Industry's (SSM) Executive Committee, the top decision-making organ for arms purchases, it was announced, among other critical decisions, that Turkey eliminated Israel from the Göktürk satellite project. Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaþar Büyükanýt, Premier Recep Tayyip Erdoðan, and Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül attended the Undersecretariat for the Defense Industry Executive Committee's meeting.

According details given by Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül, Turkey decided to eliminate Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) from the Göktürk electro-optical satellite project, while announcing that it will conduct negotiations with both Sikorsky of the US and Italy's Agusta Westland for the procurement of approximately 80 multi-purpose helicopters worth around $1.5 billion.

The rest of the decisions testify to the fever of military preparations that reflect the newly concealed alliance between the Turkish secular military establishment and the Islamist government and president of Turkey.

As it was announced, Turkey will also locally develop modern infantry rifles and automatic rifles, and this will happen for the first time. Among other ambitious projects that the SSM Executive Committee decided to either launch or start contract negotiations on are the following:

* Negotiations will continue with the Italian Tele Spazio, Germany's Ohb-Systems, and Britain's EADS Astrium, as regards the acquisition of an electro-optical satellite project. This is the $250 million project from which Israel's IAI has been eliminated. The plausible reasons and explanations given are not very convincing; it was stated that the company was dropped due to some Israeli conditions, involving the non-usage of military satellites over its airspace; however, this is nothing new, and the Israeli conditions had been known beforehand.

* Instead of a multipurpose helicopter project that was finally cancelled, Turkey will conduct talks with the US's Sikorsky and Italian Agusta Westland for the procurement of over 80 helicopters both for the Turkish Armed Forces. It was made clear that the companies will increase their chances, if they agree on building helicopter platforms in Turkey in order to boost the Turkish defense industry.

* In the acquisition of reconnaissance systems to be installed at the Aksaz Naval Base near Marmaris, Aselsan will be the main contractor and Norwegian Kongsberg will be the subcontractor. The project is worth ca. 50 million euros.

* Turkey will purchase a total of 16 Norwegian Kongsberg-made Penguin missiles worth approximately US $40 million.

* Modern infantry rifles and automatic rifles will be developed locally in two years' time, as we already stated.

* Four frigates code named TF-2000 will be produced locally with a project cost of $1.6 billion.

* Even more indicative for the Turkish arsenal's complete re-orientation and great diversification is the decision to cooperate with Russia in the key defense sector of helicopters. More precisely, eighteen Mi-17 Russian-made helicopters will be overhauled in Turkey, and the company that will do the depot-level maintenance work on the helicopters will also be tasked to secure the return of four Mi-17 helicopters that had been previously sent to Russia. (http://www.todayszaman.com/tzweb/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=128765).

The decisions bring Turkey one step closer to the great continental alliance under formation, namely Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Iran. With the remarkable preparatory work made towards the formation of a Union of Turkic states, one understands that the Turkish – Chinese – Russian rapprochement will be completed with the Turkish influence expanding throughout Central Asia. This seems to have become indispensable in order to prevent any undesired in Moscow and Beijing rise of Islamic Extremism in the area.

In other words, while allying with Iran, the three vast Asiatic countries, Russia, China and Kazakhstan, need Turkey's cooperation in reducing extremism either within the Muslim states (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia, Tajikistan and Azerbaijan) of Caucasus and Central Asia or among the Muslim inhabitants of Russia, China and Kazakhstan. Agreeing on Turkish expansion is the Russian – Chinese method of gradually pulling Turkey out of NATO.

In the light of the aforementioned, one can easily conclude that the tripartite theater between the presidents of Turkey, Israel and Palestine reflected only another role that Turkey will play in the Middle East in the years ahead; that of a main contributor to the demise of Israel and Saudi Arabia, the main US allies in the Middle East.

At this moment, and due to multifaceted biases from the part of the European, American and Israeli establishment, there is practically speaking no pro-Western force left in Turkey. It would look odd, if the situation does not become clearer soon. A pro-Armenian vote in the Congress, another EU obstacle, and further evidence for US – Israeli support to PKK will trigger an immediate and virulent Turkish reaction that will cause severe security problems to all, NATO, Europe and Israel.

Even worse for the West, the Turkish military establishment may soon conclude that no attack against Iran can be possibly accommodated with regional security as perceived in Ankara. On that day will be issued a Death Warranty for the State of Israel, and for the dramatic events that will follow the only responsible will be the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge that seems to have entered in an orbit of ultimate self-destruction.

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About The Author: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis - is Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, Islamologist, Historian and Political Scientist. Dr. Megalommatis, 49, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages.

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