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TURKEY MEDIATING NEW REGIONAL ROLE FOR ISTANBUL AND CAIRO…….

 

The Turks say that they won’t be against any one state in the region, but we all know very well that the main aim is to take advantage of the power vacuum left by the Obama administration over the past 3 years, and stick it to Israel. So tomorrow’s intended vote on a Pali state in the UN General Assembly should be viewed in the context of the US’s lack of leadership in the region. The long knives are out of their scabbards. KGS

Turkey Predicts Alliance With Egypt as Regional Anchors

By ANTHONY SHADID
Published: September 18, 2011

ANKARA, Turkey — A newly assertive Turkey offered on Sunday a vision of a starkly realigned Middle East, where the country’s former allies in Syria and Israel fall into deeper isolation, and a burgeoning alliance with Egypt underpins a new order in a region roiled by revolt and revolution.

Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, predicted an “axis of democracy” in his region.

The portrait was described by Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey in an hourlong interview before he was to leave for the United Nations, where a contentious debate was expected this week over a Palestinian bid for recognition as a state. Viewed by many as the architect of a foreign policy that has made Turkey one of the most relevant players in the Muslim world, Mr. Davutoglu pointed to that issue and others to describe a region in the midst of a transformation. Turkey, he said, was “right at the center of everything.”

He declared that Israel was solely responsible for the near collapse in relations with Turkey, once an ally, and he accused Syria’s president of lying to him after Turkish officials offered the government there a “last chance” to salvage power by halting its brutal crackdown on dissent.

Strikingly, he predicted a partnership between Turkey and Egypt, two of the region’s militarily strongest and most populous and influential countries, which he said could create a new axis of power at a time when American influence in the Middle East seems to be diminishing.

“This is what we want,” Mr. Davutoglu said.

“This will not be an axis against any other country — not Israel, not Iran, not any other country, but this will be an axis of democracy, real democracy,” he added. “That will be an axis of democracy of the two biggest nations in our region, from the north to the south, from the Black Sea down to the Nile Valley in Sudan.”

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3 Responses

  1. The real ‘axis’ will be an axis of radical Islam, controlled by the ‘peace loving’ and ‘always benevolent’, Muslim Brotherhood.

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