Turkey to kick Israeli ambassador out

[Bengal_Tiger]

Turkey expels Israeli ambassador over Gaza flotilla row

Some activists on the Mavi Marmara attacked commandos as they landed on the ship


Turkey has expelled Israel's ambassador and suspended all military agreements over its refusal to apologise for last year's raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.
This comes a day after a leaked UN report said Israeli commandos used excessive force when they boarded an aid ship. Nine Turkish activists died.
The Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, said it was "time Israel pays a price for its illegal actions".
Israel has refused to apologise and said its troops acted in self-defence.
"Israel, like any other country, has a legitimate right to protect its citizens and soldiers," an Israeli government official told the BBC.
A copy of the UN report leaked to the New York Times says Israeli forces did use excessive force when they intercepted the Turkish-led flotilla trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza in May 2010.
But the report also concludes that Israel's naval blockade of Gaza is legal - a move that has angered Turkey.
Apology deadline
Nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists were killed when Israeli forces stormed the flotilla.

The BBC's Jonathan Head, in Istanbul, says relations between Turkey and Israel have been frozen since last year's flotilla incident, but now they are being downgraded to the lowest possible level.

Turkey announced the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador hours before the report was expected to be published.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul said the report was "null and void for us", in televised remarks reported by AFP.
On Thursday Mr Davutoglu said the UN report was Israel's "deadline" to apologise.
Hamas, the militant group that runs the Gaza Strip, applauded the Turkish move...

Rest of the article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14762475

[Bengal_Tiger]

1. Turkey is to kick the Israeli ambassador out but this is purely in addition to other moves.

2. Turkey will end all military agreements with Israel e.g. training, exchange of officers, buying and selling arms.

3. Turkey has stated it will "take measures for freedom of maritime movement in the eastern Mediterranean Sea", which in English means they have had enough of the Israelis palling up with the Greek Cypriots including talk of Israeli companies exploring oil and other natural resources off the Greek coast.

4. Turkey will not recognize the Israeli blockade on Gaza.

Israel has lost its only real Muslim "ally" (in the way it lost the Shah's Iran in 1979) and there is the real possibility of a military clash or skirmish of some sort between the Israelis and the fiery Turks.

The Turks will come out on top. The whole mythology of a Jewish hold over Washington DC is exaggerated, and promoted. In reality the current US plan is to promote the rise of a strong Islamic Turkey which will dominate the Muslim middle-east and thus be a threat to US rivals, Russia, China and the EU.



US foreign secretary Hillary Clinton, high-fiving the foreign secretary of US-surrogate, AKP Turkey which the US is promoting to be a pain in the flesh of her rivals e.g. Russia, China and the EU.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Foreign minister of US-backed AKP Turkey, Davutoglu.

‘Israel’s bullying in eastern Med is over’



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Friday, September 2, 2011
Serkan Demirtaş
ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News




DAILY NEWS photo, Selahattin SÖNMEZ
The eastern Mediterranean will no longer be a place where Israeli naval forces can freely exercise their “bullying” practices against civilian vessels, a Turkish official said Friday.
The official said this would be the outcome of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s statement earlier in the day that “Turkey would take every precaution it deems necessary for the safety of maritime navigation in the eastern Mediterranean.”

Davutoğlu’s statement about providing maritime safety in the eastern Mediterranean grabbed the most attention among the various sanctions against Israel the foreign minister announced Friday. He did not further elaborate, however, on what he meant by taking “every precaution.”

The Turkish foreign minister’s statement will likely spark a new faceoff between Turkey and Israel, the region’s strongest armies, in the eastern Mediterranean. A potential confrontation between the two countries’ navies would have serious negative consequences for regional stability.

Turkish diplomats told the Hürriyet Daily News that the Turkish Navy will be more visible in the eastern Mediterranean through regular patrolling in international waters. “A more aggressive strategy will be pursued. Israel will no longer be able to exercise its bullying practices freely,” one said.

Using Turkish naval vessels to escort ships carrying aid to Palestine and observing free navigation in the zone between the island of Cyprus and Israel are among the plans set to be implemented, sources said, adding that Turkish war ships would be more frequently seen in the area.

The zone described by Turkish sources has been the subject of a recent diplomatic struggle between Turkey and Greek Cyprus over the latter’s project to start drilling natural gas reserves. Greek Cyprus and Israel recently agreed to jointly initiate the drilling with the participation of some American companies.

Turkey sees the gas-exploration deal as an agreement between two hostile countries against Turkey and has urged both parties not to get involved in such a project before a solution is found to the Cyprus issue in order to preserve the stability of the eastern Mediterranean.

In an interview with daily Zaman on Friday, EU Minister Egemen Bağış hinted that Turkish Navy could intervene if Greek Cyprus does not call off the project. “That’s what a navy is for,” he said.

Erdoğan plans Gaza visit
As part of Turkey’s more aggressive strategy against Israel, sources told the Daily News that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is planning to visit Hamas-controlled Gaza in the coming weeks, an intention he voiced in late July.
“Our prime minister has already instructed the Foreign Ministry to set a date for the visit. We are looking for the best timing for the visit,” a diplomatic source said. “Our primary purpose is to draw the world’s attention to what is going on in Gaza and to push the international community to end the unfair embargo imposed by Israel.”

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.p...217-2011-09-02

[Bengal_Tiger]

1. The US' "Green belt" policy of the 1980s was to encourage the Islamization of the USSR's southern flank i.e Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan which involved the US ordering the military regime of general Kenan Evran in Ankara to carry out Islamization of Turkish society. Zia-ul-Haq did the same in Pakistan, and the US/CIA ensured funding and support for Islamic Afghan rebel groups only in the Afghan war.



2. The US used political Islam to destroy the USSR, now it wants to re-activate this to counter its Russian, EU and Chinese rivals.

The key part of "Green Belt II" is geo-strategically mega-important Turkey which used to rule the Muslim middle east, thus the US has been working to Islamize Turkey and neutralize Kemalism.

3. Such an audacious unilateral declaration of policing the north western waters of the tense and volatile middle east and potential military/naval action against nuclear Israel by Turkey could never be done unless the US (which essentially runs Turkey in the same way it runs Pakistan) did not veto it.

As I mentioned earlier Turkey talking about protecting the "maritime waters of the eastern Meditteranean" is basically code-speak for "Israel get your butt out of Cyprus, that's our turf", and Turkey is threatening Israel with war (or a military skirmish) over this.

4. Neither Ahmadinejad of Iran, or King Abdullah of Saudi both of who have been funding Hamas for decades way before the Turks could say they are going to visit Gaza and not recognize the Israeli blockade.

Erdogan however can, because the US allows (actually instructs) him to.

5. As for Israel:

a: They have lost Egypt with the new Egypt more hostile and the possibility of a soft-Islamist regime (et la AKP) in power in the future.

b: Hamas and Hizbullah are increasing their military capacity every couple of decades with rockets and drones, with the last Arab-Israeli war see widely as a Hizbullah victory.

c: They have now lost Turkey who is blocking them in the eastern Meditteranean and which has even feintly said months back any attack on Arab countries in the middle east is an attack on them. The powerful and mighty Turkish military machine, 2nd biggest in NATO may fight in any future major mid-east war.

The Jews have always been betrayed and massacred by Christian Europeans, and the US has no problem in dispensing with Israel if it is surplus to requirements (the US petrol and areospace lobbies in Washington are far more powerful than the Jewish lobby).

The same USA made Israel hand over one of the most important sites in their entire history, the place where their patriarch Moses (alaihi salam) was said to have been given the 10 commandments, to brown-skinned Arab Muslims.

Something which is inconcievable if we go by the false narrative of Israeli-Jewish control of Washington DC and the US.

Israel is in trouble.

Uncle Sam is primarily the one instigating and engineering all this anyway.

[faye]

bengal tiger, is the above your personal view or taken from an article?